The Role of Whole-School Literacy Policies Supporting Reading Engagement in Australian Schools

Autor/inn/en	Merga, Margaret; Gardiner, Veronica
Titel	The Role of Whole-School Literacy Policies Supporting Reading Engagement in Australian Schools
Quelle	In: English in Australia, 53 (2018) 3, S.37-50 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0155-2147
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; National Curriculum; Educational Policy; Reading Instruction; Literacy Education; Reading Strategies; Reading Motivation; Reading Aloud to Others; Silent Reading; Modeling (Psychology); Reading Attitudes; Books; Student Interests; Educational Environment; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Leseunterricht; Reading strategy; Leselernstufe; Lesetechnik; Lesemotivation; Stilles Lesen; Modeling; Modelling; Modellierung; Reading behavior; Rading behaviour; Leseverhalten; Book; Buch; Monographie; Monografie; Studieninteresse; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Australien
Abstract	The Australian Curriculum positions literacy as a general capability to be taught across all subject areas. While schools may design agreements and policies to formalise the position of literacy as a whole-school priority, there is relatively limited research guiding the structure and content of these planning documents. We contend that reading engagement should have an important place in such planning documentation, despite the Australian Curriculum's relative silence on this aspect of literacy learning, as it is a valuable facet of literacy promotion, with research strongly supportive of the relationship between reading skills and will. We conducted a content analysis to determine if available whole-school literacy policy plans, agreements and policies were supportive of fostering reading engagement at school, and the extent to which they fostered home and school partnerships around reading engagement. Mirroring absences in the curriculum, we found that few schools promoted reading engagement strategies as a whole-school priority, and where strategies did feature, these varied widely. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01