Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780470674307
Year: 2014
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc (US)
Pages: 480


Description:


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