1st Edition

Literacy Learning in the Early Years

Edited By Caroline Barratt-Pugh, Mary Rohl Copyright 2001
270 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

Children's early experiences of literacy have a major influence on how they continue to learn as they grow older. Children enter early childhood programs and school with a wealth of knowledge and understandings of literacy. It is critical that early childhood professionals and teachers recognise and build on this learning. Literacy Learning in the Early Years offers a practical introduction to... Read more
Contents

Acknowledgments

List of figures

List of samples

List of tables

Contributors

Introduction

Chapter 1: Learning to be Literate: A Socio-cultural Perspective

Caroline Barratt-Pugh

Chapter 2: The relationship between literacy Practices in the Home and other Early Childhood Contexts

Judith Rivalland

Chapter 3: Learning About Words, Sounds and Letters

Mary Rohl

Chapter 4: Play and Literacy

Nigel Hall and Anne Robinson

Chapter 5: Children's Literature and Literacy Learning

Carlisle Sheridan

Chapter 6: Information Communication Technologies, Literacies and Early Learning

Martyn Wild

Chapter 7: Negotiating Critical Literacies with Young Children

` Jennifer O'Brien and Barbara Comber

Chapter 8: Literacy in More than one language: Supporting Multiliteracies

Caroline B

Biography

Caroline Barratt-Pugh and Mary Rohl are both senior lecturers in the School of Language Education at Edith Cowan University. Both have taught in the UK and Australia.