Multiple Perspectives on Difficulties in Learning Literacy and Numeracy

1. Theoretical Frameworks and Ways of Seeing: Operating at the Intersection—Literacy, Numeracy and Learning Difficulties
Claire Wyatt-Smith, John Elkins

2. Learning Difficulties, Literacy and Numeracy: Conversations Across the Fields
Stephanie Gunn, Claire Wyatt-Smith

3. Researching the Opportunities for Learning for Students with Learning Difficulties in Classrooms: An Ethnographic Perspective
Judith Green, Maria Lucia Castanheira, Beth Yeager

4. The New Literacies of Online Reading Comprehension: New Opportunities and Challenges for Students with Learning Difficulties
Jill Castek, Lisa Zawilinski, J. Greg McVerry, W. Ian O’Byrne, Donald J. Leu

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?
Colin Harrison

6. Essential Provisions for Quality Learning Support: Connecting Literacy, Numeracy and Learning Needs
Peta Colbert

7. ‘Reading’ the Home and Reading in School: Framing Deficit Constructions as Learning Difficulties in Singapore English Classrooms
Anneliese Kramer-Dahl, Dennis Kwek

8. Parent, Family and Community Support for Addressing Difficulties in Literacy
Janice Wearmouth, Mere Berryman

9. Enhancing Reading Comprehension Through Explicit Comprehending-Strategy Teaching
John Munro

10. The Writing Achievement, Metacognitive Knowledge of Writing and Motivation of Middle-School Students with Learning Difficulties
Christina E. Kraayenoord, Karen B. Moni, Anne Jobling, John Elkins, David Koppenhaver, Robyn Miller

11. The Role of Self-Monitoring in Initial Word-Recognition Learning
Robert M. Schwartz, Patricia A. Gallant

12. Effective Instruction for Older, Low-Progress Readers: Meeting the Needs of Indigenous Students
Kevin Wheldall, Robyn Beaman

13. Actualising Potential in the Classroom: Moving from Practising To Be Numerate Towards Engaging in the Literate Practice of Mathematics
Raymond Brown

14. Effective Instruction in Mathematics for Students with Learning Difficulties
Marjorie Montague

15. Language, Culture and Learning Mathematics: A Bourdieuian Analysis of Indigenous Learning
Robyn Jorgensen (Zevenbergen)

16. ‘She’s Not in My Head or in My Body’: Developing Identities of Exclusion and Inclusion in Whole-Class Discussions
Laura Black

17. Breaking Down the Silos: The Search for an Evidentiary Base
John Elkins, Claire Wyatt-Smith

Keywords: Education, Mathematics Education