Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Considering Gender and Literacy Research -- The Influence of Gender on Schooling -- The Teaching of Reading and Writing in School and Its Legacy -- The Research Evidence -- Pupils' Choice of Narrative Pleasures -- How Do They Read? -- Reading Beyond the Pleasure Principle -- Reading into Writing -- Analysis and Recommendations -- Making Connections from Theory to Practice -- From Research to Practice: A Concluding Summarywith Suggestions for the Organization of Work in the Classroom -- Examples of Unstructured Stories of Reading Transcribed from Children's Work Collected in the Pilot Study -- Examples of Story Openings Collected in the Second Phase of the Study and Analysed in Chapter 6 -- Titles of Books Recorded in the Questionnaires as Well Liked -- References -- Index.