3rd grade
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authentic literacy experiences in preschool
Author_Judith Wells Lindfors
avid readers
birth to preK
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children's early literacy development
children's language learning
children's oral language processes
early childhood educators
early literacy
elementary school teacher practice
elementary writing skills
emergent literacy
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family shelters and children reading
first grade
infancy and reading
language acquisition perspective
learning to read
learning to write
literacy instruction in kindergarten
literacy methods in elementary school
oral language development
oral language skills
out of school time and reading
preschool kindergarten
second grade
teaching kindergarten
teaching reading and writing to children age 2 to age 8
whole child
written language development
written language skills
young children's engagement in reading
young children's reading skills
Product details
- ISBN 9780807748862
- Weight: 330g
- Dimensions: 157 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 28 May 2008
- Publisher: Teachers' College Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The more teachers understand about how children learn to talk, the more they can help children become avid, joyful readers and writers. Drawing on a large body of research and her own volunteer work at a family shelter, Lindfors concisely identifies several important commonalities across oral and written language. Taking the compelling perspective that it's all language, she traces children's emergent literacy from infancy through the early school years. The book incorporates abundant examples from a diverse range of children engaged in authentic literacy experiences. Lindfors describes a set of language principles that teachers can build on as they help young students learn to read and write using the oral language processes they already know.The book contains a new, more positive ""language acquisition perspective"" on children's linguistic and literary capacities, fascinating and insightfully framed quotes, writings, and drawings from children, a 24-page Guide for Instructors and Teacher Study Groups, and an Appendix containing an interview with shelter staff from SafePlace and offering basic information on how to identify children who are living in situations of violence and what teachers can do about it.
Judith Wells Lindfors is Professor Emerita at The University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Children’s Inquiry: Using Language to Make Sense of the World.
