Beginning Literacy with Language: Young Children Learning at Home and School
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Overview
In this exciting new book, you'll travel into the homes and schools of over 70 young children from diverse backgrounds and observe parent-child and teacher-child interactions. Through research gathered in the Home School Study of Language and Literacy Development, the authors share with you the relationship they've found between these critical, early interactions and children's kindergarten language and literacy skills.You'll explore both the home and school environments of these children at ages 3, 4, and 5. You'll see how families talk to their young children during everyday activities like book reading, toy play, and mealtimes. You'll also examine children's conversations throughout the classroom day and consider how teachers strive to support children's development. In each chapter, you'll
•see how the data was collected
•read actual transcripts of parent-child and teacher- child interactions
•recognize how these interactions relate to later development
•get suggestions for supporting children's language and literacy development
•learn how these findings play out in the lives of four of the children in the study
Find out how young children's home and classroom experiences during the preschool years are related to their kindergarten language and literacy skills, and discover the kinds of conversations that make a difference.
Synopsis
In this exciting new book, you'll travel into the homes and schools of over 70 young children from diverse backgrounds and observe parent-child and teacher-child interactions. Through research gathered in the Home School Study of Language and Literacy Development, the authors share with you the relationship they've found between these critical, early interactions and children's kindergarten language and literacy skills.
You'll explore both the home and school environments of these children at ages 3, 4, and 5. You'll see how families talk to their young children during everyday activities like book reading, toy play, and mealtimes. You'll also examine children's conversations throughout the classroom day and consider how teachers strive to support children's development. In each chapter, you'll
•see how the data was collected
•read actual transcripts of parent-child and teacher- child interactions
•recognize how these interactions relate to later development
•get suggestions for supporting children's language and literacy development
•learn how these findings play out in the lives of four of the children in the study
Find out how young children's home and classroom experiences during the preschool years are related to their kindergarten language and literacy skills, and discover the kinds of conversations that make a difference.
Booknews
Based on research gathered for the Home-School Study of Language and Literacy Development, vignettes of some 70 young children from diverse backgrounds reveal the importance of early parent-child and teacher- child interactions and children's kindergarten language and literacy skills. Suggestions are given for enhancing children's language and literacy development at home and at school. Dickinson is a researcher at the Center for Children and Families at the Education Development Center, Inc. Tabors is a researcher and instructor in the Human Development and Psychology Department at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)