Improving Reading and Reading Engagement in the 21st Century

Part I Context.- Chapter 1 Improving reading and reading engagement: An international focus.- Chapter 2 Engaging readers in the 21st Century: What we know and need to know more.- Part II New Literacies and Critical Reading.- Chapter 3 Advancing reading engagement and achievement through personal digital inquiry, critical reading, and argumentation.- Chapter 4 Key issues in research on students' critical reading and learning in the 21st Century information society.- Chapter 5 Image-language interaction in text comprehension: Reading reality and national reading tests.- Chapter 6 Reading the future: The contribution of literacy studies to debates on reading and reading engagement for primary-aged children.- Part III Reading Motivation and Strategy Instruction.- Chapter 7 Engaging students in the "Joy of Reading" program in Finland.- Chapter 8 Reading motivation and strategy use of Hong Kong students: The role of reading instruction in Chinese language classes.- Chapter 9 "Reading was like my nightmare but now it's my thing": A narrative of growth and change of an Australian Indigneous student.- Chapter 10 Engaging children in reading activity through collaboration in a Japanese elementary school: An activity-theoretical case study.- Chapter 11 The potential for better outcomes of looking at what our language tell us about what we do when we read for memory and meaning outcomes.- Part IV Partnership and Intervention.- Chapter 12 Generating data, generating knowledge: Professional identity and the Strathclyde Literacy Clinic.- Chapter 13 Transforming literacy outcomes in high poverty school: An evidence-based approach.- Chapter 14 A university-school partnership teacher-teaching-teacher intervention model to promote reading in Hong Kong: Issues and challenges.- Chapter 15 Reading and writing connections: How writing can build better readers (and vice versa).