Handbook of early childhood literacy / edited by Nigel Hall, Joanne Larson and Jackie Marsh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hall, Nigel, 1947-

Larson, Joanne, 1956-

Marsh, Jackie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literacy.

Early childhood education.

Physical Description:

xxi, 436 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2003.

Contents:

pt. 1. Perspectives on early childhood literacy. The emergence of early childhood literacy / Julia Gillen and Nigel Hall

Postcolonial perspectives on childhood and literacy / Radhika Viruru

Gender and early childhood literacy / Elaine Millard

Reconceptualizing early childhood literacy : the sociocultural influence / Aria Razfar and Kris Gutiérrez

pt. 2. Early childhood literacy in families, communities, and cultures. Researching young children's out-of-school literacy practices / Michele Knobel and Colin Lankshear

Language, literacy, and community / Patricia Baquedano-López

The out-of-school schooling of literacy / Eve Gregory and Charmian Kenner

Literacy within family life / Trevor H. Cairney

Family literacy programmes / Peter Hannon

Early childhood literacy and popular culture / Jackie Marsh

Film and television / Muriel Robinson and Margaret Mackey

pt. 3. Early moves in literacy. Moving into literacy : how it all begins / Lesley Lancaster

Perspectives on making meaning : the differential principles and means of adults and children / Gunther Kress

Brain activity, genetics, and learning to read / Gerald Coles

Becoming biliterate / Charmian Kenner and Eve Gregory

Playing the storyteller : some principles for learning literacy in the early years of schooling / Carol Fox

Uncovering the key skills of reading / Roger Beard

Phonology and learning to read / Rhona Stainthorp

Young children's literacy meaning making / Miriam Martinez, Nancy Roser, and Caitlin Dooley

Verbal and visual literacy : the role of picturebooks in the reading experience of young children / Maria Nikolajeva

Textbooks and early childhood literacy / Allan Luke, Victoria Carrington, and Cushla Kapitzke

The nature of young children's authoring / Deborah Wells Rowe

The development of spelling / Patricia L. Scharer and Jerry Zutell

Writing the world / Frances Christie

pt. 4. Literacy in preschool settings and schools. Talk and discourse in formal learning settings / Joanne Larson and Shira May Peterson

Effective literacy teaching in the early years of school : a review of evidence / Kathy Hall

Creating positive literacy learning environments in early childhood / Laurie Makin

Computers and early literacy education / Linda D. Labbo and David Reinking

Critical literacy : what does it look like in the early years? / Barbara Comber

Finding literacy : a review of research on literacy assessment in early childhood / Sharon Murphy

pt. 5. Researching early childhood literacy. Methodologies in research on young children and literacy / David Bloome and Laurie Katz

Feminist methodologies and research for early childhood literacies / Jeanette Rhedding-Jones

Taking a naturalistic viewpoint in early childhood literacy research / Brian Cambourne.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0761974377

OCLC:

54790045