language arts (early childhood)

Provides research-based activities, lessons, strategies, and reproducible pages designed to promote oral language skills in prekindergarten and kindergarten students.

A guide to understanding how children develop language from birth through five years that reviews the latest research revealing how much infants, toddlers, and preschoolers know and can express from the early months on.

Discusses the ways young children learn to read and write, exploring such topics as literacy awareness, concepts about print in English and other languages, fostering independence in early writing, introducing storybooks, and accommodating diversity.

Provides ideas and tips for planning baby storytimes.

Offers preschool and kindergarten teachers activities and strategies to nurture students' writing skills and help them become lifetime writers.

Examines the use of read-alouds for elementary level children at home, at school, and in various curricular areas, and provides a variety of activities.

Discusses the ways young children learn to read and write, exploring such topics as literacy awareness, concepts about print in English and other languages, fostering independence in early writing, introducing storybooks, and accommodating diversity.