Here's the Story
Using Narrative to Promote Young Children's Language and Literacy Learning

Daniel Meier (Edited by)

9780807749791

Paperback / softback, published 12 July 2009

192 pages, illustrations
22.3 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.276 kg

Featuring contributions from a unique mix of authors—classroom teachers, teacher educators, and children’s book authors—this volume explores the value of stories in promoting children’s language and literacy learning. Major sections cover the most fundamental and critical foundations for language and literacy growth—including first language learning, multilingual learning, and literacy development—and then focus on the forms and functions of story from infants and toddlers to the upper elementary grades. Here's the Story is a practical text that offers the conceptual and theoretical background for promoting new ways of bringing narrative to the forefront of children’s current language and literacy learning.