Literacy and Education is a practical guide to applying New Literacy Studies in primary classrooms. It represents a comprehensive look at how to rethink, redefine, and redesign language in the classroom to meet contemporary needs and skills of elementary students based on current literacy research, theory and practice. Each chapter profiles key themes within NLS including: literacy and identity; multimodality and multiliteracies, bridging home-school literacy practices, and literacy and globalization.
The book follows an accessible format with multiple activities in each chapter, theory boxes highlighting seminal research and theory; suggestions for classroom design and planning ideas; an NLS assessment framework; and vignettes of New Literacy Studies and Multiliteracies classrooms in Britain and Canada, as well as a comprehensive glossary of terms.