The document discusses a research project investigating childhood literacy across six Asian geopolitical spaces, including Hong Kong. Key questions focus on how literacy is defined, taught, and practiced in schools and homes based on national policies. In Hong Kong, the education system provides nine years of compulsory primary and junior secondary education. Literacy is defined in terms of biliteracy in Chinese and English, and trilingualism in Cantonese, Putonghua and English. The research will observe literacy practices among children ages 5, 10, and 15 in kindergarten, primary, and secondary school classrooms as well as in their homes.