Multiple Perspectives on Difficulties in Learning Literacy and Numeracy

Contents.- Acknowledgements.- About the contributors.- List of figures.- List of tables.- Chapter 1: Theoretical frameworks and ways of seeing: Operating at the intersection—literacy, numeracy and learning difficulties.- Chapter 2: Learning difficulties, literacy and numeracy: Conversations across the fields.- Chapter 3: Researching the opportunities for learning for students with learning difficulties in classrooms: An ethnographic perspective.- Chapter 4: The new literacies of online reading comprehension: New opportunities and challenges for students with learning difficulties.- Chapter 5: Literacy, technology and the Internet: What are the challenges and opportunities for learners with reading difficulties, and how do we support them in meeting those challenges and grasping those opportunities?.- Chapter 6: Essential provisions for quality learning support: Connecting literacy, numeracy and learning needs.- Chapter 7: Reading the home and reading in school: Framing deficit constructions as learning difficulties in Singapore English classrooms.- Chapter 8: Parent, family and community support for addressing difficulties in literacy.- Chapter 9: Enhancing reading comprehension through explicit comprehending strategy teaching.- Chapter 10: The writing achievement, metacognitive knowledge of writing and motivation of middle-school students with learning difficulties.- Chapter 11: The role of self-monitoring in initial word recognition learning.- Chapter 12: Effective instruction for older, low-progress readers: Meeting the needs of Indigenous students.- Chapter 13: Actualising potential in the classroom: Moving from practising to be numerate towards engaging in the literate practice of mathematics.- Chapter 14: Effective instruction in mathematics for students with learning difficulties.- Chapter 15: Language, culture and learning mathematics: A Bourdieuian analysis of Indigenous learning.- Chapter 16: ‘She’s not in my head or in my body’: Developingidentities of exclusion and inclusion in whole-class discussions.- Chapter 17: Breaking down the silos: The search for an evidentiary base.- Index.