ABSTRACT
All readers of this book will have at least one thing in common with the author. At some point in our lives we were all taught to read and to write. This teaching may have come from a person, or persons, or it may have been the result of particular experiences or environments. Yet taught we were, none of us being so fortunate as to be born literate. This observation sounds so obvious as to be trite, but it repays some thought as a starting point for a consideration of the teaching and learning of literacy.
