Title: Understanding Language and Literacy Development: Diverse Learners in the Classroom
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Publication Date: 2014
Language: English
ISBN 10: 047067430X
ISBN 13: 9780470674307
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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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

About the Author

Xiao-lei Wang is a Professor in the School of Education at Pace University, USA. She has published extensively in academic journals and is the author of Learning to Read and Write in the Multilingual Family (2011) and Growing up with Three Languages (2008).

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