Language and Literacy Development in Early Childhood

ISBN-13: 9781107578623 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 250 str.

Jon Callow; Kathleen Rushton; Robyn Ewing

Opis

This book provides pre-service and practising teachers with an accessible, integrated approach to language and literacy learning in early childhood.

Spis treści

1. The importance of language in our lives; 2. Learning how to mean: exploring the dimensions of early language development; 3. Playing with language: imaginative play, language development and technology; 4. Talking to learn: listening to young children's language; 5. Difference and diversity in language and literacy development; 6. Aboriginal perspectives in the early childhood literacy classroom; 7. Reading with children: quality literature and language development; 8. Supporting the emergent reader; 9. Storying and the emergent storyteller and writer; 10. Making meaning with image and text in picture books; 11. Digital literacies in the lives of young children; 12. Language literacy assessment in early childhood contexts and classrooms.