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Understanding Language and Literacy Development
Contributor(s): Wang, Xiao-Lei (Author)
ISBN: 047067430X     ISBN-13: 9780470674307
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $51.43  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - Reading & Phonics
Dewey: 372.6
LCCN: 2014011411
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.6" W x 9.5" (1.60 lbs) 480 pages
 
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Understanding Language and Literacy Development: Diverse Learners in the Classroom offers effective supporting strategies to address the cultural and linguistic diversity of students in contemporary classrooms.

  • Discusses learners with different linguistic abilities--infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence--by suggesting effective ways to reach them based on their strengths and needs
  • Emphasizes language and literacy supporting strategies in a variety of everyday classroom settings
  • Includes activities and questions to motivate readers to think and develop their own perspectives on language and literacy development
  • Considers a variety of different language acquisition experiences, including monolingual, multilingual, and language impairment
  • Discusses different types of literacies, including digital and hypertext
  • Connects language and literacy development to identity and motivation to contextualize learning styles for pre-service teachers
  • Supported by a companion website that includes additional resources such as PowerPoint presentations by chapter and a summary of relevant information from the Common Core K-12 English Language Arts Standards