This paper reports on Australian case study research in schools where principals completed the Principals as Literacy Leaders (PALL) program. The purpose was to gather data about the effects of PALL on principals' leadership and the impact of interventions in Reading on teaching, student learning, and achievement. Data gathering included…

The vast proportion of Australia's Indigenous students are represented persistently as well below the national benchmarks for literacy and numeracy. Recent national school-based research and development projects, funded by the Australian Government's "Closing the Gap" strategy, have again targeted improving Indigenous students' literacy…

Suggests that texts invite readers to read in certain ways. Demonstrates in more detail how different strategies for reading with, across and against the invited reading of a base text are transferable to writing strategies that explore alternative and oppositional views, values, ideologies and discourses within a social justice framework. (RS)