Beginning Literacy With Language: Young Children Learning at Home and School [Paperback]

David K. Dickinson (Author, Editor), Patton O. Tabors (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 155766479X | ISBN-13: 978-1557664792 | Publication Date: April 1, 2001 | Edition: 1

In this exciting new book, you'll travel into the homes and schools of over 70 young children from diverse backgrounds and observe parent-child and teacher-child interactions. Through research gathered in the Home School Study of Language and Literacy Development, the authors share with you the relationship they've found between these critical, early interactions and children's kindergarten language and literacy skills.

You'll explore both the home and school environments of these children at ages 3, 4, and 5. You'll see how families talk to their young children during everyday activities like book reading, toy play, and mealtimes. You'll also examine children's conversations throughout the classroom day and consider how teachers strive to support children's development. In each chapter, you'll see how the data was collected,read actual transcripts of parent-child and teacher- child interactions,recognize how these interactions relate to later development,get suggestions for supporting children's language and literacy development, andlearn how these findings play out in the lives of four of the children in the study.

Find out how young children's home and classroom experiences during the preschool years are related to their kindergarten language and literacy skills, and discover the kinds of conversations that make a difference.

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"Beginning Literacy with Language is the bottom-line message of this longitudinal research on the language and literacy development..." --Courtney Cazden, Harvard Graduate School of Education

About the Author

David K. Dickinson, Ed.D. After 5 years of experience teaching in elementary schools in the Philadelphia area, Dr. Dickinson attended the Harvard Graduate School of Education and then served as Director of Teacher Education at the Child Study Department at Tufts University and joined the Education Department at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he received tenure. He moved to the Education Development Center (EDC) in 1994 to join the team that developed the Early Childhood Generalist certificate for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. In 1995 he established the New England Research Center on Head Start Quality, which examined the impact of Head Start on children's language and literacy development and on families, with special attention to the development of children whose first language is Spanish. He and Catherine Snow received the initial funding that launched the Home-School Study of Language and Literacy Development in 1987, and he directed the school portion ! of the study during the preschool years. Drawing on early results from this study, he and colleagues at EDC developed the Literacy Environment Enrichment Project, an approach to helping preschool teachers and their supervisors adopt more effective practices to support children's language and literacy. He and others at EDC are developing and researching a version of this program that will be delivered using the the Internet in combination with interactive television. His work has been published in numerous articles, and he has edited two other books, Bridges to Literacy: Families and Schools (Blackwell, 1994) and Handbookon Early Literacy Research(co-edited with Susan Neuman, Guilford Press, 2001). He also is co-author(with Miriam w. Smith, Angela Sangeorge, and Louisa Anastasopoulos) of a set of tools for evaluating the quality of literacy support in early childhood classrooms. Patton O. Tabors, Ed.D. Prior to beginning her doctoral studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1981, Dr. Tabors was an elementary school teacher and a childbirth educator. During her doctoral studies she focused on first and second language acquisition in young children. Her qualifying paper and dissertation research, based on 2 years of ethnographic investigation in a nusery school classroom, described the developmental pathway of a group of young children learning English as a second language. She was able to use this information as the basis for the material in One Child, Two Languages: A Guide for Preschool Educators of Children Learning English as a Second Language (Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 1997) since 1987, Dr. Tabors has been the research coordinator of the Home-School Study of Language and Literacy Development in collaboration with Catherine Snow and David Dickinson. During this time she has also directed research related to low-education and low-income mothers reading to their preschool-age children as part of the Manpower Development Research Corporation evaluations of two welfare-to-work projects-New Chance and JOBS-and for the Harvard Language diversity Project, a subproject of the New England Research Center on Head Start Quality, directed by David Dickinson. Dr. Tabor's latest research-a longitudinal project that is following the language and literacy development of Spanish-speaking children from preschool to second grade-combines her interests in early language and literacy development and second language acquisition in young children.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Paul H Brookes Pub Co; 1 edition (April 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 155766479X
• ISBN-13: 978-1557664792
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #700,838 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars beginning Literacy : Young Children Learning at Home and School, July 26, 2011

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It's a great book , I borrowed it before and now it was worth it to buy it. I am glad to get such good service from sender of this book about the value of helping childrent to simply help children develop their vocabulary by talking with our own children. NA

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This book is very informative and you will need it throughout your early childhood education career.