The alphabetic principle and beyond: surveying the landscape

This text describes one aspect of a child’s first steps towards learning to read, the alphabetic principle. Those ‘big ideas’, put forward by key stakeholders, are woven together for teachers to help them support primary school students’ successful learning of the alphabetic principle, so it becomes a stepping stone towards students achieving the level of reading needed to meet the demands of 21st century educational, vocational, and community contexts. The text aims to bring together various perspectives of learning to read and draw out commonalities to assist teachers to make sense of the plethora of early reading literature.

Cox, Feez & Beveridge (Eds.) (2019). The alphabetic principle and beyond: surveying the landscape. Primary English Teachers Australia.