Raising standards in literacy / edited by Ros Fisher, Greg Brooks, and Maureen Lewis.

Incluye bibliografía.

_ What does research tell us about how to develop comprehension? / Colin Harrison -- What does research tell us about how we should be developing written composition? / Mary Bailey -- As the research predicted? : examining the success of the National Literacy Strategy / Roger Beard -- What do effective teachers of literacy know, believe and do? / David Wray and Jane Medwell -- Developing literacy : towards a new understanding of family involvement / Clare Kelly, Eve Gregory and Ann Williams.

_ Words in basal readers : a historical perspective from the United States / James V. Hoffman -- Irrelevancy-- and danger-- of the ´simple view´ of reading to meaningful standards / Victoria Purcell-Gates -- Understanding national standards in reading / Sue Horner -- Validity in literacy tests / Marian Sainsbury -- Trying to count the evidence / Greg Brooks -- Textbooks and model programmes : reading reform in the United States / Elfrieda H. Hiebert -- Teacher education programmes and children´s reading achievement / National Commission on Excellence in Elementary Teacher Preparation for Reading Instruction -- Implementation of the National Literacy Strategy in England, 1998-2001 / Laura Huxford -- Examining teaching in the literacy hour : case studies from English classrooms / Ros Fisher and Maureen Lewis -- Literacy block in primary school classrooms, Victoria, Australia / Bridie Raban and Gillian Essex -- Globalisation, literacy, curriculum practice / Allan Luke and Victoria Carrington.