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