Here's the Story : Using Narrative to Promote Young Children's Language and Literacy Learning
Overview
Featuring contributions from a unique mix of authors--classroom teachers, teacher educators, and children's book authors--this volume explores the value of stories in promoting children's language and literacy learning. Major sections cover the most fundamental and critical foundations for language and literacy growth--including first language learning, multilingual learning, and literacy development--and then focus on the forms and functions of story from infants and toddlers to the upper elementary grades. Here's the Story is a practical text that offers the conceptual and theoretical background for promoting new ways of bringing narrative to the forefront of children's current language and literacy learning.
Book Features:
- Original examples of exemplary instruction from multilingual and multicultural settings.
- Practical suggestions and ideas for caregiving and teaching.
- Interviews with celebrated children's books authors Nina Crews and Elisa Kleven.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780807749791
- ISBN-10: 0807749796
- Publisher: Teachers College Press
- Publish Date: July 2009
- Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.65 pounds
- Page Count: 192
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