Literacy News

• Engagement with print: Low-income families and Head Start children

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• Negotiation of `how to’ at the cross-section of cultural capital and habitus: Young children’s procedural practices in a student-led literacy group

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• Mother–child shared reading with print and digital texts

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• Successful engagement in an early literacy intervention

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• Putting words in their mouths: The role of teaching assistants and the spectre of scripted pedagogy

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• ‘Third spaces’ are interesting places: Applying ‘third space theory’ to nursery-aged children’s constructions of themselves as readers

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• Impacts of television viewing on young children’s literacy development in the USA: A review of the literature

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• Book review: Susan Hill, Developing Early Literacy Assessment and Teaching. Australia: Eleanor Curtain, 2006. 414 pp. ISBN 1–74148–253–4 AUS$69.95

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• Book review: Michael Armstrong, Children Writing Stories. Berkshire and New York: Open University Press, 2006. 192 pp. ISBN 0–335–21976–4 (pbk)

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• Book review: Katharine Davies Samway When English Language Learners Write: Connecting Research to Practice, K-8. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2006, 208 pp. (includes bibliographical references and index). ISBN 0–325–00633–4 (pbk) US$23.00

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