This issue acknowledges the importance of multiliteracies and diversity, and shows how learners are affected by varying approaches to literacy.

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Table of Contents

• 7 • Statement of Purpose
  
• 8 • Review Board
  
• 9 • Editorial
  
  Lynn Butler-Kisber
• 17 • Commentary: The Intellectual Properties of Literacy
  
  John Willinsky
• 27 • Commentary: Thoughts on Three Decades in Literacy Education: Why Don’t We Ever Learn?
  
  Susan Church
• 33 • Commentary: On the Road to Literacy: Before the Three R’s Come the Three F’s
  
  Vivian Paley
• 41 • Commentary: Early Literacy Development and Implications for Practice
  
  Anne Haas Dyson
• 47 • Commentary: Elementary Students Discuss Literacy
  
  Sonora Lemieux, Benoît Mallette & Shannon Prevost O’Dowd
• 49 • Weaving Tales and Leaving Trails
  
  Georgia Heard
• 53 • Early Childhood Literacy and the Sense of Play
  
  Geneviève Côté
• 59 • Making the Invisible Process Visible: A Kinesthetic Approach to Explicit Reading Comprehension Strategy Instruction in Early Primary Grades
  
  Sarah Kingsley
• 69 • Saying What You See in the Dark: Engaging Children Through Art
  
  Mary Ann Reilly
• 89 • Teaching the “Bad Boy” to Write
  
  Gary McPhail
• 105 • How a Therapy Dog May Inspire Student Literacy Engagement in the Elementary Language Arts Classroom
  
  Lori Friesen
• 123 • Life-Long Readers of Poetry? Why Not?
  
  Patrick Dias
• 139 • Inquiry Literacy: A Proposal for a Neologism
  
  Bruce M. Shore, Camelia Birlean, Cheryl L.Walker, Krista C. Ritchie, Frank LaBanca & Mark W. Aulls
• 157 • On Screen: Writing, Images and What It Means to Be a Reader
  
  Abigail Anderson
• 171 • Multiple Definitions of Reading: Why They Continue to Be Used in the Same Contexts, and What This Has Meant for Literacy Instruction
  
  Paul Kettner
• 189 • Whose Literacy Learning Landscapes Matter? Learning from Children's Disruptions
  
  Mary H. Maguire
• 207 • Unexpected Learning: Two PhD Candidates Narratively Inquire Into Their Experiences With an ESL Group
  
  Sandra Jack-Malik & Miao Sun
• 225 • Arts-Based Research as a Pedagogical Tool for Teaching Media Literacy: Reflections From an Undergraduate Classroom
  
  Patricia Leavy
• 243 • Crossing Thresholds and Expanding Conceptual Spaces: Using Arts-Based Methods to Extend Teachers' Perceptions of Literacy
  
  Shelley Tracey
• 263 • Adult Literacy... and the Children Shall Lead
  
  Joe Norris