Edition DescriptionRevised edition
SynopsisThis widely popular guide provides early childhood teachers, child-care professionals, and students with the criteria for selecting high-quality children's literature and strategies for how to use it to support infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and primary-age students in their literacy development. This new edition presents the characteristics of high-quality literature that has the potential to impact the lives of young children--and shows how to use it effectively to support literacy development. The text offers an array of literature for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and primary-age children, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and contemporary and classic literature titles. Readers learn strategies for designing curriculum; developing language skills; and fostering moral, social, intellectual, aesthetic, and creative development in young children. Included are numerous practical instructional approaches, book examples, and response strategies, making this an indispensable tool for anyone working with children from infancy through primary grades., In the new edition of this widely popular guide, Literature for Young Children: Supporting Emergent Literacy, Ages 0-8, early childhood teachers and child-care professionals get the help they need to recognize high-quality children's literature and to learn to use it effectively to support emerging literacy development in infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and primary-age children. The authors, widely known as authorities in this field, explain how to use children's literature as a teaching tool and provide readers with a number of developmentally appropriate strategies for sharing literature with young children.