Beginning Literacy with Language: Young Children Learning at Home and School
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In this fascinating 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 children at ages 3, 4, and 5 and 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’llsee how the data was collectedread actual transcripts of parent-child and teacher-child interactionsrecognize how these interactions relate to later developmentget suggestions for supporting children’s lan
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