Beginning Literacy with Language: Young Children Learning at Home and School

Beginning Literacy with Language: Young Children Learning at Home and School by Dickinson BA M.Ed. Ed.D., Dr. David K.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781557664792.

In this fascinating book, youll 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 theyve found between these critical, early interactions and childrens kindergarten language and literacy skills. Youll 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. Youll also examine childrens conversations throughout the classroom day and consider how teachers strive to support childrens development. In each chapter, youll 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 childrens 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 childrens 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.