Contents

• Open and directed text mediation in literature instruction:
  Effects on comprehension and attitudes?  
  Kathleen F. Clark and Michael F. Graves
• Students’ beliefs about barriers to engagement with writing
  in secondary school English: A focus group study?  
  Sean Hawthorne
• Oral feedback in the context of written language?  
  Eleanor Hawe, Helen Dixon and Enid Watson
• Phonological literacy: Preparing primary teachers for the
  challenge of a balanced approach to literacy education?  
  Corinne Buckland and Helen Fraser
• A boy behaving badly: Investigating teachers’ assumptions
  about gender, behaviour, mobility and literacy learning?  
  Robyn Henderson
• Book reviews   
  Madeline Fussell, Jenny Kompara, Cherry Stewart