Editor: Heather Fehring 
In the last 10 years, the world has witnessed a massive change to the nature of what it means to be literate. Educators of English must ask themselves challenging questions, such as how can we effectively assess students’ literacies, and how can we ensure that the assessment process empowers individuals? Although there are many stakeholders to consider as educators perform and report on literacy assessments—students, parents, colleagues, and government, to name a few—teachers must make informed, consistent judgments regarding students’ literacy achievement. 
This volume presents articles published by the Australian Literacy Educators’ Association (ALEA) between 1992 and 2002. Editor Heather Fehring has chosen 19 articles that present diverse viewpoints related to literacy assessment and reporting practices. The articles, which encompass a range of grade levels from elementary school to high school, explore literacy assessment from a theoretical perspective, report on applicable research studies, discuss the implications of standards and benchmarking, and demonstrate practical classroom implementation of assessment and reporting techniques. 
Literacy Assessment provides a rich resource of perspectives on the topic of literacy assessment, but more important, it stresses the importance of teacher judgment in relation to literacy assessment and reporting. This collection will give you the knowledge to make informed judgments about the literacy assessments and reporting practices in your own classroom.

Literacy Assessment: A Collection of Articles from the Australian Literacy Educators' Association

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Australian Literacy Educators' Association

Words, Language & Grammar

Intl Literacy Assn

Although definitions of the term critical literacy vary in research literature, researchers agree that critical literacy is an active, challenging approach to literacy that encourages students to be aware of the way that texts are constructed and how such constructions position readers. 
This compilation of one new article and 11 previously published articles offers diverse perspectives on critical literacy. The articles explain the principles of critical literacy from a theoretical perspective, illustrate the comparative changes between theories of literacy development, detail the practical classroom implementation of critical literacy principles, and highlight the changing role of the teacher in the process of students' coming to understand the multiple meanings of texts and the power of language. 
This collection gives testimony to critical literacy's potential to help students understand how language works and the ways in which various individuals and groups use literacy to their own ends. The articles will inspire readers to critically examine what counts as literacy in their classrooms, the ways in which they use texts, and the resulting demands that are placed on their students. 
BACKCOVER Although definitions of the term critical literacy vary in research literature, researchers agree that critical literacy is an active, challenging approach to literacy that encourages students to be aware of the way that texts are constructed and how such constructions position readers. Many lessons may teach students to decode and respond to what they are reading, but critical literacy theorists argue that these lessons often do not provide the cultural and political analysis of texts that is an important component of students' literacy development. Students who approach reading from a critical perspective learn to make connections between what is new and what is familiar as their school knowledge transforms into active knowledge. 
Critical Literacy: A Collection of Articles From the Australian Literacy Educators' Association, a compilation of one new article and 11 previously published articles, offers diverse perspectives on critical literacy. The articles explain the principles of critical literacy from a theoretical perspective, illustrate the comparative changes between theories of literacy development, detail the practical classroom implementation of critical literacy principles, and highlight the changing role of the teacher in the process of students coming to understand the multiple meanings of texts and the power of language. 
This collection gives testimony to critical literacy's potential to help students understand how language works and the ways in which various individuals and groups use literacy to their own ends. The articles will inspire readers to critically examine what counts as literacy in their classrooms, the ways in which they use texts, and the resulting demands that are placed on their students.

Critical Literacy: A Collection of Articles from the Australian Literacy Educators' Association

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