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This book provides pre-service and practising teachers with an integrated approach to language and literacy learning in early childhood. Theoretically grounded and practically focused, it explores how children learn to talk, play using language, become literate and make meaning - from birth through to the pre-school years.

Table of Contents
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.

Language and Literacy Development in Early Childhood

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: 02/06/2016
      ISBN13: 9781107578623, 978-1107578623
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      Philosophy and theory of education

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book provides pre-service and practising teachers with an integrated approach to language and literacy learning in early childhood. Theoretically grounded and practically focused, it explores how children learn to talk, play using language, become literate and make meaning - from birth through to the pre-school years.

      Table of Contents
      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.

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