Language and literacy in early childhood education

Spodek, Bernard. (Added Author). Saracho, Olivia N. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 080773280X
ISBN: 9780807732809
ISBN: 0807732796
ISBN: 9780807732793
Physical Description: print
xii, 210 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Teachers College Press, ©1993.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction -- Language and literacy in early childhood education / Olivia N. Saracho and Bernard Spodek -- Language skills that relate to literacy development / Catherine E. Snow and Patton E. Tabors -- From prop to mediator : the changing role of written language in children's symbolic repertoires / Anne Haas Dyson -- Literacy development : the whole language approach / Olivia N. Saracho -- Assessing young children's language and literacy : tests and their alternatives / Celia Genishi -- Biliteracy and the language-minority child / Kris D. Gutierrez -- Reading recovery : a literacy program for at-risk children / Gay Su Pinnell -- From the margin to the center of curricula : multicultural children's literature / Violet Harris -- Designing the early childhood classroom environment to facilitate literacy development / Judith A. Schickedanz -- The role of parents in supporting literacy development of young children / Elizabeth Sulzby and Patricia A. Edwards -- Preparing teachers to support the literacy development of young children / Lesley Mandel Morrow and Muriel K. Rand -- Language and literacy programs in early childhood education : a look to the future / Bernard Spodek and Olivia N. Saracho.