Understanding Language and Literacy Development

Understanding Language and Literacy Development: Diverse Learners in the Classroom offers effective supporting strategies to address the cultural and linguistic diversity of students in contemporary classrooms.

• Discusses learners with different linguistic abilities—infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence—by suggesting effective ways to reach them based on their strengths and needs
• Emphasizes language and literacy supporting strategies in a variety of everyday classroom settings
• Includes activities and questions to motivate readers to think and develop their own perspectives on language and literacy development
• Considers a variety of different language acquisition experiences, including monolingual, multilingual, and language impairment
• Discusses different types of literacies, including digital and hypertext
• Connects language and literacy development to identity and motivation to contextualize learning styles for pre-service teachers
• Supported by a companion website that includes additional resources such as PowerPoint presentations by chapter and a summary of relevant information from the Common Core K–12 English Language Arts Standards