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* Describes the level of preparedness essential to contemporary early childhood educators to function well within diverse groups of language learners. * Reiterates the importance of interaction between children and the adults and institutions surrounding them, emphasizing the new development of full-service schools to offer children a wide array of support services right at school. * A Fact File at the beginning of each chapter enables students to actually see how research can inform and influence practice. * Strong emphasis is placed on collaboration with families and professionals in other fields to support literacy growth. * Standards to guide professional practice provide the latest information on national standards affecting the teaching of language arts. * To Literacy Through Literature feature shows students how to successfully incorporate childrens literature in their teaching. * A Practitioners Guide to ... provides an in-depth look at various issues of concern to early childhood practitioners.

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• 1 Appreciating Diversity in Children's Language
• Fact File on Language Diversity
• What Is a Community of Language Learners
• Collaboration with Families and Professionals
• Standards to Guide Professional Practice: Diversity in the Language Arts
• Meeting the Needs of Children with Language Differences
• Overview of Children's Language Differences
• Teacher Concerns and Basic Strategies
• Activities to Support Diverse Language Learners
• Teacher Self-Assessment
• 2 Optimizing Every Child's Language Growth through Family Literacy|2
• What Is Family and Community Engagement is Schools?
• Collaboration with Families and Professionals
• Standards to Guide Professional Practice: The National PTA
• Overview of Parent's and Families' Contributions to Early Literacy
• Teacher Concerns and Basic Strategies
• 3 Understanding Language Development during Early Childhood
• Fact File on Language Development
• What Is Language
• Collaboration with Families and Professionals
• Standards to Guide Professional Practice: NAEYC Code of Professional Conduct
• How Do Children Learn to Communicate?
• Components of Language
• Overview of Language Development
• Theories of Language Acquisition
• Teacher Concerns and Basic Strategies
• Classroom Activities to Support Language Development
• Teacher Self-Assessment
• 4 Helping Young Children to Become Better Listeners
• Fact File on Listening
• What Is Effective Listening
• Collaboration with Families and Professionals
• Standards to Guide Professional Practice
• Why Is Listening Important?
• Developmental Overview of Children's Listening
• Teacher Concerns and Basic Strategies
• Activities to Support Listening
• Teacher Self-Assessment
• 5 Supporting the Speaking Abilities of the Very Young
• Fact File on Children's Speech
• What Is a Positive Talk Environment?
• Collaboration with Families and Professionals
• Standards to Guide Professional Practice: Bilingual Education
• Ho Do Young Children Use Speech?
• Teacher Concerns and Basic Strategies
• Classroom Activities to Develop Children's Speaking
• 6 Facilitating Young Children's Expression Through Drawing and Writing
• Fact File on Children's Drawing and Writing
• Collaboration with Families and Professionals
• Standards to Guide Professional Practice: The Process Approach to Writing
• Developmental Overview of Children's Drawing and Writing
• Teacher Concern and Basic Strategies
• Activities to Support Children's Drawing and Writing
• 7 Fostering Growth in Emergent Literacy and Early Reading
• Fact File on Reading
• What Is Reading?
• Collaboration with Families and Professionals
• Standards to Guide Professional Practice: Behaviors Associated with Language Learning Disabilities in Young Children
• Developmental Overview of Emergent Reading
• Teacher Concerns and Basic Strategies
• Activities to Support Reading
• Teacher Self-Assessment
• 8 Using Narratives and Storytelling to Foster Children's Growth in Literacy
• Fact File on Narratives and Storytelling
• What Is Narrative?
• Collaboration with Families and Professionals
• Standards to Guide