ABSTRACT
In this chapter we shall examine some of the ways in which literacy might be developed and used across a range of curriculum areas. Reading and writing are central activities in the primary curriculum, even though they have tended in the past to receive little attention from teachers of junior children. A belief has often seemed to underlie junior school teaching practice, and the preparation of teachers for this age range, that reading and writing were essentially topics for consideration in the early years, and should have been mastered by the time children arrived in junior classes. 1 Even a cursory consideration of the use of reading and writing across almost the whole curriculum in the junior school indicates the mistakenness of this belief.
