Language & Literacy in the Early Years 0-7
- Marian R Whitehead - Independent Consultant
The author emphasizes the joy and creativity involved in supporting young children's development as speakers, writers and readers. While taking account of current initiatives and programmes, the author supports flexible teaching methods in what is a complex teaching and learning process. The book is fully illustrated with examples and photos from early childhood settings.
This book is essential reading for primary and early years students and practitioners in the field of language and literacy including nursery nurses, classroom assistants and foundation stage teachers.
A great foundation book for understanding what is literacy and language in the early years. with practical examples of how to implement language and literacy in the early years.
This is the textbook that the students are working on to understand Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics for their Multilingual learning.
An excellent book that covers all the important elements of language and literacy development, and explains them clearly. Highly recommended.
This book will be highly recommended for the Supporting Children's Literacy Skills Module for my students in their early years course. The text is useful and provides clear understanding of teaching young children and supporting their language and literacy development. Many thanks
An excellent guide to language and literacy in the under 7's. For those completing a speech and language course it helps to relate theory to practice. An interesting read.
Another outstanding book by Whitehead that focuses on children’s language and literacy development from birth to seven. A useful resource for student.
This book will be added to the reading list for the Communication, Language and Literacy module taught to second year B.Ed students.
This book provides useful material for students in relation to language acquisition, reading and writing . The book is clearly laid out.
Very supportive content and understandable for someone looking at language and literacy in the early years for the first time at foundation level. Good overall content.
Students in the early years and primary found this text quite useful and enhanced their understanding of pedagogy in the Early Years. This text will be recommended in the Early Years specialism module delivery for this academic year.
