ED370698 PS022381
Title: Language and Literacy in Early Childhood Education. Yearbook
in Early Childhood Education, Volume 4.
Author(s): Spodek, Bernard, Ed.; Saracho, Olivia N., Ed.
Pages: 210
Publication Date: 1993
ISBN: 0-8077-3279-6
Available from: Document Not Available from EDRS.
Availability: Teachers College Press, 1234 Amsterdam Avenue, New York,
NY 10027 ($22.95).
Language: English
Document Type: Book (010); Collected works--General (020)
Geographic Source: U.S.; New York
Journal Announcement: RIEOCT1994
As classrooms
have become more culturally and linguistically diversified, the
theories and methods of teaching reading to young children have
changed. Early childhood educators must explore new methods of instruction
in order to involve and expand the language abilities of young children
and must provide engaging activities that will create more competent
readers and writers. This collection examines these and other literacy
topics. Following the introduction, "Introduction--Language
and Literacy in Early Childhood Education," by Olivia Saracho
and Bernard Spodek, the articles are: (1) "Language Skills
That Relate to Literacy Development" (Catherine Snow and Patton
Tabors); (2) "From Prop to Mediator: The Changing Role of Written
Language in Children's Symbolic Repertoires" (Anne Haas Dyson);
(3) "Literacy Development: The Whole Language Approach"
(Olivia Saracho); (4) "Assessing Young Children's Language
and Literacy: Tests and Their Alternatives" (Celia Genishi);
(5) "Biliteracy and the Language-Minority Child" (Kris
Gutierrez); (6) "Reading Recovery: A Literacy Program for At-Risk
Children" (Gay Su Pinnell); (7) "From the Margin to the
Center of Curricula: Multicultural Children's Literature" (Violet
Harris); (8) "Designing the Early Childhood Classroom Environment
To Facilitate Literacy Development" (Judith Schickedanz); (9)
"The Role of Parents in Supporting Literacy Development of
Young Children" (Elizabeth Sulzby and Patricia Edwards); (10)
"Preparing Teachers to Support the Literacy Development of
Young Children" (Lesley Morrow and Muriel Rand); and (11) "Language
and Literacy Programs in Early Childhood Education: A Look to the
Future" (Bernard Spodek and Olivia Saracho). Each chapter includes
references. (TJQ)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature; Classroom Design; Early Childhood
Education; High Risk Students; *Language Acquisition; *Language
Skills; *Literacy; *Literacy Education; Parent Role; Student Evaluation;
Teacher Education; Testing; Whole Language Approach; *Written Language
Identifiers: Biliteracy; *Emergent Literacy; Multicultural Materials
