The early literacy handbook : making sense of language and literacy with children birth to seven - a practical guide to the context approach : birth to seven / by Dominic Wyse and Christine Parker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wyse, Dominic.

Contributor:

Parker, Christine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language arts (Early childhood)--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Language arts (Early childhood).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (117 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Practical Pre-School Books, 2012.

Andrews UK [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The heart of this book is a new approach to the teaching of language and literacy. Its focus is exemplary classroom practice built on rigorous theory and evidence.The approach combines new theory and dynamic practice in its advocacy for contextualised teaching. This book shows how the teaching of smaller units of language, such as sentences, words, letters and phonemes, follows naturally from the context of whole texts.The book offers: practical examples, photographs from settings, case stu...

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Body matter; Introduction; Language and literacy in the early years; Chapter 1: Building on what children know; Chapter 2: Motivation for reading and writing; Chapter 3: High quality literacy teaching; Chapter 4: Interacting with children; Chapter 5: Multilingualism; Chapter 6: Assessing language; Reading in the early years; Chapter 7: Texts for reading; Chapter 8: The learning environment for reading; Chapter 9: Children's names; Chapter 10: Strategies for reading; Chapter 11: Interpreting texts; Chapter 12: Teaching letters and phonemes; Writing in the early years

Chapter 13: Texts for writingChapter 14: The learning environment for writing; Chapter 15: Strategies for writing; Chapter 16: Grammar and punctuation; Chapter 17: Spelling; Chapter 18: Handwriting; Back matter; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-909280-12-7

1-909280-13-5

OCLC:

843199916