The group of case studies details ways in which elementary, middle, and secondary schools in Bradford (England) have responded to recent developments in literacy education and developed whole- school approaches to improving achievement in literacy within multilingual school populations. Case study titles include: "The Literacy Lesson: A Guide" (Ann Winter); "Developing Strategies in the Teaching of Reading" (Carol Satterthwaite); "Developing a Systematic Whole School Approach To Teaching Reading" (Claire Head); "Developing the Literacy Hour" (Barbara Briggs); "Language for Learning" (Tracy McNally); "The Highfield Parent Partnership Project" (Jules Offord); "A Whole School Approach To Reading for Information" (Dorrie Brown, Gwyn Timbers); "Developing a Spelling Policy" (Su Halliday); "Bilingual Poetry Project" (Alex Fellowes); "Developing a Family Literacy Scheme" (Pam Khan); "Assessing and Improving 'Total Communication'" (Zahida Alam, Gill Benzinski); "'Miss, They Might Be Stars!'" (Sharon Hogan, Farhat Aziz, Shelly Fingret, Claire Ackroyd); "Improving Oracy" (Yasmin Ali, Karen Westcott); and "Understanding and Writing Non-Fiction Texts" (Pauline Mitchell). (MSE)