Together with Contextualising Difficulties in Literacy Development, this reader forms the basis of The Open University's Difficulties in Literacy Development course, and is ideal for similar courses nationally and internationally.

This book outlines and critiques international strategies and programs designed to address difficulties in literacy development. The high-profile team of contributors consider teaching programs which operate at family, school, pupil and teacher levels. They argue that school is not the only legitimate location for literacy education, and show how difficulties in literacy can be addressed sequentially, both in and out of the school context. This book will be of interest to postgraduate students, teachers, researchers, educational professionals and policy makers who are looking for practical strategies to address difficulties in literacy development.

Part 1 Dilemmas in the choice of responses to students' difficulties in literacy development. Part 2 Family and community: parents and teachers
collaboration between teachers and
parents in assisting children's reading
pause prompt praise - reading tutoring procedures for home and school partnership
dyslexia - parents in need
rhetoric and research in family literacy
developing literacy in families with histories of reading problems - preliminary results from a longitudinal study of young children of dyslexic parents
partnership
approaches - new futures for travellers. Part 3 School and classroom: using soft systems methodology to re-think special needs
case studies of individual classrooms
contradictory models - the dilemma of specific learning difficulties
the national literacy strategy and dyslexia - a comparison of teaching methods and materials. Part 4 Individual pupils: examinations assessment and special arrangements
learning to understand written language
specific development dyslexia (SDD) "basics to back" in 2000 and beyond?
multisensory teaching of reading in mainstream settings
researching the social and emotional consequences of dyslexia
an examination of
the relationship between labelling and stigmatisation with special reference to dyslexia
the long-term effects of two interventions for children with reading difficulties
teaching spelling - some questions answered
spelling. (Part contents).