Description / Table of Contents: Introduction / Paul MessarisPart I. Theoretical Bases for Communicative and Visual Arts Teaching -- Literacy for the Information Age / Renee Hobbs -- Television as a Learning Environment : A Theory of Synergy / Susan B. Neuman -- TV Viewing, Reading and Media Literacy / Roger Desmond -- Television and Language Learning / Michael Willmorth -- Visual Communication Skills and Media Literacy / Michael Griffin, Dona Schwartz -- Visual Intelligence and Analogical Thinking / Paul Messaris -- Visual Intelligence and Spatial Aptitudes / Georgette Page -- Exploring Future Media / John Carey -- Balancing Act : Using Drama to Even the Exchange of Information in the Classroom / Jennifer Lynn Wolf -- Navigating the Changing Landscape of Literacy : Current Theory and Research in Computer-Based Reading and Writing / David Reinking, Linda Labbo -- Part II. Methods of Inquiry in Communicative and Visual Arts Teaching -- Introduction : Explorations in Crossing Boundaries / Donna E. Alvermann -- Ethnography for the Study of Performance in the Classroom / Steven Z. Athanases -- Transcription and Representation in Literacy Research / Carolyn D. Baker -- Methodology in Teacher Research : Three Cases / James F. Baumann, Betty Shockley Bisplinghoff, JoBeth Allen -- Assessing Development and Learning Over Time / Robert Calfee -- Children Out of Bounds : The Power of Case Studies in Expanding Visions of Literacy Development / Anne Haas Dyson -- Ethnography and Ethnographers of and in Education : A Situated Perspective / Judith Green, David Bloome -- Remaking Sense, Reshaping Inquiry : Feminist Metaphors and a Literacy of the Possible / Lorn Neilsen -- Making "Collaboration" Problematic in Collaborative School-University Research : Studying with Urban Teacher Researchers to Transform Literacy Curriculum Genres / Christine C. Pappas -- Poetic Representation / Laurel Richardson -- Alternative Methodology for Diagnostic Assessment of Written and Verbal Responses to Works of Art / Carol Susann Stavropoulos -- A National Policy Perspective on Research Intersections between Literacy and the Visual/Communicative Arts / Anne P. Sweet -- Learning with Multiple Symbol Systems : Possibilities, Realities, Paradigm Shifts and Developmental Considerations / Robert J. Tierney -- Part III. Research on Language Learners in Families, Communities, and Classrooms -- Introduction / Victoria Chou -- Telling Their Stories, Singing Their Songs / Mara Krechevsky, Ulla C. Malkus -- Deaf Children as Literacy Learners : Tom, Robbie, and Paul / Claire L. Ramsey -- Youth Genre in the Classroom : Can Children's and Teachers' Cultures Meet? / Colette Daiute -- Bridging Home and School Literacies : Models for Culturally Responsive Teaching, a Case for African-American English / Carol D. Lee -- Student Conversations : Provocative Echoes / Eleanor Binstock -- Street Literacy / Dwight Conquergood -- Intergenerational Discourses : Life Texts of African-American Mothers and Daughters / Vivian L. Gadsden -- Community Literacy : From Home to Work and Back / Gary Pharness, Lee Weinstein -- A Grass Roots Think Tank : Linking Writing and Community Building / Hal Adams -- Part IV. Research on Language Teachers : Conditions and Contexts -- Introduction / Dorothy S. Strickland -- Preparing Language Arts Teachers in a Time of Reform / Pamela L. Grossman, Sheila W. Valencia, Frederick L. Hamel -- Becoming a Member of a Professional Language Learning Community / Janet L. Olson -- Teacher Preparation in the Language Arts : A Synthesis / Josefina Villamil Tinajero, Ana Huerta-Macias -- Exploring Voices of the Language Arts Universe : From Tin Can Telephones to Satellite Missions / Debra Bayles, Nancy Roser -- Teachers Reflecting on Practice / Richard T. Vacca, JoAnne L. Vacca, Beverly Bruneau -- Putting It in Perspective : Administrating Art Education for Literacy / Richard P. Mesa -- Preparing Preservice Teachers to Teach Multicultural Literature / Arlette Ingram Willis, Violet J. Harris -- Part V. Expanding Instructional Environments : Teaching, Learning, and Assessing the Communicative and Visual Art -- Introduction / Nancy Roser -- Instructional Environments for Language and Learning : Considerations for Young Children / Lesley Mandel Morrow, Diane H. Tracey -- Dramatic Play, Context, and Children's Communicative Behavior / A.D. Pellegrini -- Drama Worlds : Places of the Heart, Head, Voice, and Hand in Dramatic Interpretation / Shelby Wolf, Brian Edmiston, Patricia Enciso -- From Storytelling to Getting On-Line : Language and Literacy Opportunities in the Elementary School / Marilyn C. Scala, Virginia C. Schroder -- "What Have You Learned?" : Co-constructing the Meaning of Time / Gordon Wells, Gen Ling Chang-Wells -- The Literary Text : Its Future in the Classroom / Richard L. Venezky -- Instructional Environments for Language and Literacy : Considerations for the Adult Learner / Thomas G. Sticht -- Film, Video, and Books : Some Considerations for Learning and Teaching / Lawrence Baines -- Electronic Discourse Communities : Theory, Practice, and Research / Wayne M. Butler -- The Future of Television in the Home and in the Classroom : Evidence for Impact / Joan M. Shiring -- Newspapers and On-Line Text : Essentials of the Literacy Environment / Karen D. Wood, Jim Nicholson -- Reading Comics, the Invisible Art / Shirley Brice Heath, Vikram Bhagat -- Accountability through Assessment and Instruction / Roger Fan, Eugene Jongsma -- Part VI. Research Perspectives on Curricular, Extracurricular, and Policy Perspectives -- Introduction / James R. Squire -- Who Determines Policy, Power, and Politics and What Are Their Attitudes? / Robert E. Shafer -- Alternative Assessment, Literacy Education, and School Reform / Louise C. Wilkinson, Elaine R. Silliman -- Setting Opportunity-to-Learn Standards / C. Jane Hydrick -- State Curricular Frameworks and Standards in the Communicative Arts / Sharon O'Neal, Susan Strecker -- Reading Recovery : A Summary of Research / Gay Su Pinnell -- International Perspectives on the Reading Recovery Program / Marie M. Clay -- Change through Collaboration : The Boston University-Chelsea Public Schools Partnership in Literacy / Jeanne R. Paratore, Rosdmina Indrisano -- Teaching the Delayed Reader : The Benchmark School Model / Irene W. Gaskins -- Effective Literacy Instruction : Findings of the Kamehameha Elementary Education Program / Kathryn H. Au, Claire L. Asam -- California's Literature-Based Curriculum and the California Literature Project / Phillip C. Gonzales, Mel Grubb -- The Introduction of the National Curriculum for English / John Richmond -- Cross-National Studies of Literacy / Warwick Elley -- Literature Curriculum : Issues of Definition and Control / Richard L. Allington, Sherry Guice -- Ten Years of Research : Achievements of the National Center for the Study of Writing and Literacy / Sarah Warshauer Freedman ... [et al.] -- Classroom Contexts Promoting Literacy Engagement / John T. Guthrie ... [et al.] -- Standards in the Language Arts / P. David Pearson -- Developing State Standards in English Language Arts : A Case Study / Karen K. Wixson, Charles W. Peters, Sheila A. Potter -- Part VII. Voices from the Field -- Introduction / Lee Galda, Bernice E. Cullinan -- Like Happy Dreams : Integrating Visual Arts, Writing, and Reading / Ann Alejandro -- Symbolism : A Third-Grade Experience / Michelle Carey Clark -- Voices from the Field : Constructing Meaning from Illustrations / Richard M. Kerper -- We Are the Music Makers : Helping Children Express Themselves through the Magic of Poetry / Michael R. Strickland -- The Eye and the Ear / Jane Yolen -- Books about Art : A Joyous Vision / Jan Greenberg -- Sound and Resound / Catherine Paterson -- An Author Celebrates the Unpredictable Ways of the Illustrator / W. Nikola-Lisa -- The Visual Arts Made Accessible through Picture Books / Barbara Kiefer -- Playing against Conventions : The True Story of the Stinky Cheese Man / Steve Tozer, Victoria Chou -- Reflections : Arthur Moves to TV and CDs / Marc Brown -- Bringing Arthur to Television / Katfuj Waugh -- Reading Rainbow and the Joy of Reading / Twila C. Liggett -- Literacy Goes to the Movies / Lauren L. Wohl -- "Hoop Dreams" : An Interview with Steven James-- Producer, Director, Co-editor / Victoria Chou, Steve Tozer -- Thoughts on Visual Literacy / Philip Yenawine -- "Songs Capture Something That's Gone and Make It into Something Tangible" : An Interview with Songwriter Caroline Peyton / Josephine Peyton Young -- Judging by the Cover : How a Magazine Promotes Communicative Literacy / Tamara Hanneman Rubin -- Words + Pictures = Magic : A Designer Looks at Picture Books / Joy Chu -- The Changing Face of Literacy : A Publisher's Perspective / Roger R. Rogalin -- New Directions in Literacy Instruction / Anthony Lucki -- The Creation of a Basal Program : A Collaborative Effort / Susanne Singleton -- The Role of Computer Graphics in Literacy Attainment / Barbara Holland Baskin -- Current Issues and Future Directions / Bertram C. Bruce.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Historical and theoretical foundations1. Vision for learning: history, theory, and affirmation / Shirley Brice Heath -- 2. Multimedia production as composition / David L. Bruce -- 3. Crossing the bridge: literacy between school education and contemporary cultures / Damiano Felini -- 4. The construction of photographic meaning / Andrew L. Mendelson -- 5. Constructing, performing, and reading representations of youth and childhood / S.E. Woodson -- 6. The development of media education in England: a personal view / Cary Bazalgette -- 7. Using a multimodal theoretical lens to explore studies pertaining to English learners in the visual and communicative arts / Cynthia Brock ... [et al.] -- 8. Censorship and censorship policies: the impact on teaching literacy through the visual arts / Nancy Frey -- 9. How international assessments contribute to literacy policy / Renate Valtin, Cathy Roller, John Else -- Mastering the media / Alan Michel and Kim Slack -- Unexpected outcomes of media arts education / Elana Yonah Rosen and Erica Deiparine-Sugars -- Part II. Methods of inquiry in the communicative, visual, and performative arts -- 10. "Literacy" in a multimodal environment of communication / Gunther Kress -- 11. Learning with multiple literacies: observations of lives exploring meanings, identities, possibilities and worlds / Robert J. Tierney -- 12. Children out of bounds: the power of case studies in expanding visions of literacy development / Anne Haas Dyson -- 13. Theatre and theory partnered through ethnographic study / Steven Z. Athanases -- 14. Making "collaboration" problematic in collaborative school-university action research: studying with urban teacher researchers to transform literacy practices / Christine C. Pappas -- 15. Remaking sense, reshaping inquiry: reimagining metaphors for a literacy of the possible / Lorri Neilsen -- 16. Reenvisioning preservice teacher identity: matrixing methodology / Stacy J. Miller -- 17. Analytic dilemmas in real and virtual contexts: a turn to spatial semiosis / Julie Cheville -- 18. Disability studies matter / Kit Tisdale -- 19. Museum literacy, art, and space study / A. Jonathan Eakle -- 20. "A picture can do things words can't": transforming representations in literacy research / Lalitha Vasudevan -- 21. Literacy research and policy: are we learning anything? / Barbara Kapinus, Cathy Roller -- Music in a child's life / Alika Brandenburg -- Part III. Family and community contexts in the communicative, visual, and performative arts -- 22. Youth cultures, literacies, and identities in and out of school / Elizabeth Birr Moje -- 23. A world of expanding literacies: audio visual and nonlinear digital forms in everyday life / JoEllen Fisherkeller -- 24. The comic book project: literacy outside (and inside) the box / Michael Bitz -- 25. Internet communication among youth: new practices and epistemologies / Cynthia Lewis -- 26. Anime and manga fandom: young people's multiliteracies made visible / Kelly Chandler-Olcott -- 27. Reading, writing, and watching: the informal education of film fans / Kimberly Sheridan -- 28. Working the crowd: youth media interactivity / Elisabeth Soep -- 29. Both sides of the mic: community literacies in the age of hip hop / Jabari Mahiri ... [et al.] -- 30. Novelness in action: the role of self-generated dramatic arts activities in the literacy development of adolescents / Christopher Worthman -- 31. "We as stylist actually become like psychiatrists": problem solving in public performance / Yolanda J. Majors -- 32. Exchanging life narratives: the politics and poetics of do-it-yourself practices / Doreen M. Piano -- 33. Examining shared domains of literacy in the church and school of African American children / Gwendolyn Michele Thompson McMillon -- 34. Violence and the visual, performing, and communicative arts / Ian Pumpian and Douglas Fisher -- Awakening voice and losing sleep: when adult southern learners become writers / S.D. Collins -- Picture book biographies to promote intercultural understanding / Colleen P. Gilrane -- Part IV. Into the language arts classroom through the visual and communicative arts -- 35. Literacy classrooms: making mind out of multimodal material / Randy Bomer -- 36. A critical review of research into children's responses to multimodal texts / Evelyn Arizpe -- 37. Reading the art of the picturebook / Barbara Kiefer -- 38. Young children's visual meaning making in response to picturebooks / Lawrence R. Sipe -- 39. Getting the picture: visual dimensions of informational texts / Barbara Moss -- 40. Drawing to learn: visual support for developing reading, writing, and concepts for children at risk / Anne McGill-Franzen -- 41. The role visualization strategies play in struggling readers' engagement, comprehension, and response to text, or "Wait. You mean it's supposed to make sense every time you read?" / Mary Massie, Karen Boran, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm -- 42. From drawing to digital creations: graphic organizers in the classroom / Karen Bromley -- 43. The effective uses of digital storytelling as a teaching and learning tool / Bernard R. Robin -- 44. Teacher learning for new times: repurposing new multimodal literacies and digital-video composing for schools / Suzanne M. Miller -- 45. Dramatic play and dramatic activity: literate language and narrative understanding / Lee Galda and A.D. Pellegrini -- 46. Playing with textual toys: popular culture and childhood writing / Anne Haas Dyson -- 47. Promoting self-knowledge: adolescents engaged in educating / Marino C. Alvarez, Victoria J. Risko -- 48. Critical media literacy in secondary schools / Pamela U. Brown and Gretchen Schwarz -- 49. Wanting to look a thousand times: blending visual and textual elements in the contemporary young adult novel / Jennifer Lynn Wolf -- 50. Shakespeare and Gaiman: strange bedfellows attain immortality / Jacqueline T. Pham and Andrea A. Lunsford -- 51. Film, literature, and language / Lawrence Baines -- 52. Media over the decades: from radio (fast-forward) to podcasting and the iPod / James Trier -- 53. Film and video in the classroom: back to the future / William Kist -- 54. Popular culture in the language arts classroom / Jackie Marsh -- 55. Differentiating visual, communicative, and performative arts instruction in well-managed classrooms/ Diane Lappe, James Flood, Kelly Moore -- Pictures as part of a normal school day: third grade / Molly Bang -- An eruption of poppies: a meditation on writing landscape / Jane Yolen -- The truth about nonfiction / Edward T. Sullivan -- Timeless timeline: visualizing the past and the future / Deborah A. Wooten -- Standards in the arts and arts within literacy instruction / Nan L. McDonald -- Encounters with art in and out of the classroom.

Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Preface; Contributors; Reviewers; Part I: THEORETICAL BASES FOR COMMUNICATIVE AND VISUAL ARTS TEACHING; Part II: METHODS OF INQUIRY IN COMMUNICATIVE AND VISUAL ARTS TEACHING; Part III: RESEARCH ON LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN FAMILIES, COMMUNITIES, AND CLASSROOMS; Part IV: RESEARCH ON LANGUAGE TEACHERS: CONDITIONS AND CONTEXTS; Part V: EXPANDING INSTRUCTIONAL ENVIRONMENTS: TEACHING, LEARNING, AND ASSESSING THE COMMUNICATIVE AND VISUAL ARTS; Part VI: RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES ON CURRICULAR, EXTRACURRICULAR, AND POLICY PERSPECTIVES; Part VII: VOICES FROM THE FIELD; NAME INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX