Literacy Development and Enhancement Across Orthographies and Cultures

Part 1: Section 1. Literacy Development Chapter 1. It's All in the Name. Anna C. Both-de Vries and Adriana G. Bus Chapter 2. Learning about Writing Begins Informally. Sarah Robins and Rebecca Treiman Chapter 3. The Role of Letter Name Knowledge in Early Spelling Development: Evidence from Brazilian Portuguese. Cláudia Cardoso-Martins and Marcela Fulanete Corrêa Chapter 4. An Eye for Print: Child and Adult Attention to Print during Shared Book Reading. Mary Ann Evans and Jean Saint-Aubin Chapter 5. The Role of Hebrew Letter Names in Early Literacy: The Case of Multi-Phonemic Acrophonic Names. Iris Levin Part 2: Promoting Literacy at Home and in School Chapter 6. The Early Childhood Project: A 5-Year Longitudinal Investigation of Children's Literacy Development in Socio-cultural Context. Susan Sonnenschein, Linda Baker and Robert Serpell Chapter 7. Early Literacy at Home: General Environmental Factors and Specific Parents' Input. Catherine McBride-Chang, Yvonne Y. Y. Chow and Xiuli Tong Chapter 8. Reading Books to Young Children: What It Does and Doesn't Do. Monique Sénéchal Chapter 9. The Making of Literate Families: Considerations of Context, Misconceptions, and Time. Linda Phillips Chapter 10. Spellings of Words: A Neglected Facilitator of Vocabulary Learning. Linnea C. Ehri and Julie Rosenthal Chapter 11. Instructional Influences on Literacy Growth: Interactions and Intervention. Frederick J. Morrison, Carol MacDonald Connor and AnnemarieHindman Part 3: Bilingualism -- Acquiring a Second Spoken and Written Language Chapter 12. Role of Orthography in Literacy Acquisition and Literacy Problems among Monolinguals and Bilinguals. Malatesha, R. Joshi Chapter 13. Becoming Literate in a Foreign Language. Liliana Tolchinsky Chapter 14. Rudiments of Inflectional Morphology Skills in Emergent English-Hebrew Biliterates. Esther Geva and Dana Shafman Chapter 15. Early Identification and Intervention to Prevent Reading Difficulties. Orly Lipka and Linda Siegel Part 4: Beyond Literacy Chapter 16. Whatever Happened to Pedagogical Theory? David Olson