Böcker av Kathleen A. Roskos

Before children are readers and writers, they are speakers and listeners. This book provides creative, hands-on strategies for developing preschoolers speaking, listening, and oral comprehension skills, within a literacy-rich classroom environment. Each chapter features helpful classroom vignettes; a section called Preschool in Practice, with step-by-step lesson ideas; and Ideas for Discussion, Reflection, and Action. The book addresses the needs of English language learners and describes ways to support students literacy development at home. The final chapter pulls it all together through a portrait of an exemplary day of preschool teaching and learning. Reproducible forms and checklists can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2 x 11 size.

Presents research syntheses on the significance of play in the literacy development of young children and pushes the study of play and literacy into different areas. This book aims to challenge play-literacy researchers to use their imaginations to overcome persistent methodological problems, and to strive for multi-disciplinary perspectives.

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