I: The challenges for literacy development across disciplines. Overview of the text / Francine Falk-Ross -- The educational issues before us / Francine Falk-Ross -- A case study to consider using different frames of reference / Francine Falk-Ross -- II. Language as a scaffold for learning. The mediating role of Pedagogic discourse / Francine Falk-Ross -- Providing supportive contexts for young children's language to develop their ideas and opinions / Shobana Musti-Rao and Lenwood Gibson -- Looking at literacy from the family-school frame of reference / Lee Shumow and Elena Lyutykh -- Mathematics talk: Literacy development in a mathematics context / Brian R. Evans -- Literacy and the arts: how artistic perspectives enhance literacy learning / Merryl Goldberg and Laurie Stowell -- Promoting agency, access and acquisition among adolescent English language learners / Kathleen A. J. Mohr, Michelle Flory, and Lois Ann Knezek -- III. Talk and textual considerations. Multimodality in children's school-based texts / Roberta Linder -- Addressing adolescents' need for voice and interaction / Jill Lewis-Spector and Mary McGriff -- From resistance to engagement - The importance of the digital literacies for struggling readers and writers / Peter McDermott and Kathleen A. Gormley -- Concluding thoughts / Francine Falk-Ross.
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