The Role of Family Literacy Environments in Promoting Young Children's Emerging Literacy Skills: New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, ... Single Issue Child & Adolescent Development) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 078791259X ISBN 13: 9780787912598

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2001

Synopsis

The research collected in this new issue seeks to identify whichaspects of family literacy environments promote children's emergingliteracy and which experiences in the home facilitate thedevelopment of children's literacy skills. This issue presents aninnovative model of emergent literacy in which written language, atall levels of specificity, is at the center of the construct ofemergent literacy. In addition, studies presented in this issuehighlight the association between child and family literacy acrossage and socioeconomic background. These studies demonstrate thespecificity of associations between family literacy environmentsand young children's emerging literacy skills, showing that theparticular type of literacy interaction influences the particularliteracy skill being developed.

This is the 92nd issue of the Jossey-Bass series NewDirections for Child and Adolescent Development.

About this title

About the Author:

PIA REBELLO BRITTO is research scientist at the Center for Children and Families: Advancing Policy, Education and Development, at Teachers College, Columbia University.

JEANNE BROOKS-GUNN is Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Child Development and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 078791259X
• ISBN 13: 9780787912598
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 104
• Editor: Britto Pia Rebello, Brooks-Gunn Jeanne