In this exciting new book, you'll travel into the homes and schools
of over 70 young children from diverse backgrounds and observe
parent-child and teacher-child interactions. Through research
gathered in the Home School Study of Language and Literacy
Development, the authors share with you the relationship they've
found between these critical, early interactions and children's
kindergarten language and literacy skills. You'll explore both the
home and school environments of these children at ages 3, 4, and 5.
You'll see how families talk to their young children during
everyday activities like book reading, toy play, and mealtimes.
You'll also examine children's conversations throughout the
classroom day and consider how teachers strive to support
children's development. In each chapter, you'll see how the data
was collected read actual transcripts of parent-child and teacher-
child interactions recognize how these interactions relate to later
development get suggestions for supporting children's language and
literacy development learn how these findings play out in the lives
of four of the children in the study Find out how young children's
home and classroom experiences during the preschool years are
related to their kindergarten language and literacy skills, and
discover the kinds of conversations that make a difference.
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