- Chapter Five: The background to spelling
- Some background to English spelling
- A little history helps
- Some principles of English spelling Really!
- Spelling reform – a critical consideration
- Language management from meaning to speech or writing
- Semantic system
- Visual output direct route
- Speech output direct route
- Assembled spelling (indirect spelling)
- Chapter Six: The meta-issue (Thinking about thinking, learning about learning.)
- Problem-solving and meta-cognition Our innate ineptitude (but all is not lost).
- Novices and experts
- Meta-cognition Thinking about thinking
- Meta-linguistics scaffolding modelling & critical awareness
- Meta-affect and students
- Meta-awareness and learning
- Chapter Seven: Literacy & affect (Emotions, anxiety, learning and performance.)
- Anxiety emotion, motivation and learning
- Emotions and anxiety & their effect on performance a literature review
- Learned helplessness cause and effect
- Attribution theory Maladaptive attributions
- Mathematics anxiety
- Effect of teachers' beliefs and perceptions
- Traditional and alternative teachers
- Attributional training and plausible alternative explanations
- Managing affect
- What is literacy and what is it for?
- Antidotes to learned helplessness
- Androgogy and ABE
- Ownership and autonomy
- Techniques and autonomy