Children's Language: Connecting Reading, Writing, and Talk

by Judith Wells Lindfors

Book Overview

The more teachers understand about how children learn to talk, the more they can help children become avid, joyful readers and writers. Drawing on a large body of research and her own volunteer work at a family shelter, Lindfors concisely identifies several important commonalities across oral and written language. Taking the compelling perspective that it's all language, she traces children's emergent literacy from infancy through the early school...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807748854
• ISBN13: 9780807748855
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.9"