Make Way for Literacy!: Teaching the Way Young Children Learn
- ISBN-10
- 0325002703
- ISBN-13
- 9780325002705
- Category
- Education / General
- Pages
- 210
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- Pearson Education Canada
- Author
- Gretchen Owocki
Description
With Literacy Through Play, Gretchen Owocki revealed to thousands of early childhood educators what a virtual gold mine play is for facilitating literacy learning. Now, with Make Way for Literacy , Owocki offers effective guidelines for creating a classroom community that supports children's developing literacies.
Make Way for Literacy starts with a brief explanation of how literacy begins to develop, first in a child's home and neighborhood. Owocki points out the various individual traits, family activities, and basic literacy practices that can be so influential - and then focuses on preschool, kindergarten, and the primary grades. Next, the book offers four key principles for understanding and facilitating literacy, along with easy-to-follow techniques for starting - or refining - teacher research and inquiry in the classroom.
The bulk of the text is devoted to practical, curriculum-enhancing literacy engagements. For each type of engagement, Owocki explains how it fosters language and literacy development; provides ideas for instruction, assessment, evaluation, and teacher research; offers practical methods and materials for getting the engagement started; suggests related activities involving art, drama, movement, writing, drawing, talk, or play; and includes actual teaching and learning examples from classrooms.
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