Contents

• Editorial Comment    
  Gloria Latham, Lisa Kervin and Jessica Mantei
• Early Literacy and Phonics       
  David Hornsby & Lorraine Wilson
• Enacting Reading in Kindergarten with Four- and Five-year-olds       
  Christine Topfer
• Promoting Reading Success: Strategies and Ideas that Work!     
  Kaye Lowe, Kelly Hannett, Debbie Martens
• How Mr Spot turned the tide       
  Barbara Weddle
• Teaching Reading – An Action Research Model       
  Kirsty Cochrane
• Reading assessment in the classroom       
  Rob McDonald
• Reading Music Videos:
  A Great Classroom Resource       
  Anthony Bortolot
• A Reading, Writing Partnership       
  Louisa & Nathan Salmon
• Young Children, Oral Language and 3-D Mind Maps       
  Christine Howitt and Elaine Blake
• Ten ways I ‘hook’ children into reading …       
  First Books and Early Language Development       
  Jo Burnell
• Text Talks for Teachers        
  The Rights of the Reader – Daniel Pennac
• Text Talks for Young Readers        
  Glister – Andi Watson
  Pig City – Louis Sachar
  Isabella’s Garden – Glenda Millard