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xvii, 455 pages 25 cm. "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 "-- "Connects language and literacy development to identity and motivation to contextualize learning styles for pre-service teachers"-- Xiao-lei Wang. Includes bibliographical references and index. n-us--- Linguistic minorities Education United States Teachers Training of Multilingualism in children Language and education Language awareness in children Language acquisition Children Language Children with social disabilities Education United States Children of minorities Education United States LC3731 .W355 2014 372.6 EDU029020 9780470674291 (hardback) 9780470674307 (paper) 2014011411 DLC 141023 20180920020606.0 329260 eng