Description
Book Synopsis"Marian Whitehead's re-focused priorities of babies as powerful thinkers, the significance of non-verbal communication, the importance of language play, the roots of emergent literacy and the notion of language and education as shared community endeavours make her book the one to choose for today's world."
Early Years UpdateRadically rewritten and updated in light of new research and developments, the new edition of this important book gives clear guidance to early years practitioners on how to support young childrenâs language and literacy development.
The book covers the age range 0-7 years and highlights the speed and complexity of this period of growth in childrenâs thinking, communicative abilities, language, social and cultural awareness and physical skills. Child observations and case studies and photographs are used to demonstrate the learning that goes on in a variety of homes and early years settings.
New and key features include:
- An expanded c
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Great communicators
2. Play and language
3. Once upon a time ...
4. Emerging literacy
5. Language, literature and literacy in early years settings: case studies
6. National requirements for language andliteracy in the early years
7. Communicating and talking together
Appendices:
IThe Bears’ Treasure Island
IIHampden Way Nursery School documents
III‘The Five Year Old Steiner Waldorf Child’ statement
IV Earlham Early Years Centre documents
