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Neuman, Susan B.; Copple, Carol; Bredekamp, Sue – 2000
The issues of how and when to teach young children to read and write are sufficiently important and controversial that two professional organizations International Reading Association (IRA) and the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), collaborated on a position statement, based on what is currently known from empirical…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Beginning Writing, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Emergent Literacy
Neuman, Susan B.; Copple, Carol; Bredekamp, Sue – 2001
This Spanish language edition of "Learning To Read and Write: Developmentally Appropriate Practices for Young Children," presents effective research-based strategies for promoting children's literacy learning in preschool, kindergarten, and elementary classrooms and infant/toddler settings. Including classroom photos and children's work,…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Beginning Writing, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Elementary Education
Fields, Marjorie V.; Spangler, Katherine L. – 1995
Combining developmentally appropriate early childhood practice with current views of emergent literacy and whole language instruction, this book is designed to help pre-service and in-service teachers incorporate new views of literacy into their classrooms. The book includes extensive examples from actual classrooms to assist readers in…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Beginning Writing, Classroom Environment, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Meier, Daniel R. – 2000
Drawing on current research and one teacher's teaching experience, this book offers a discussion of ways to unite developmentally appropriate and culturally responsive literacy practices. The book presents detailed portraits of children learning to make sense of literacy during the early childhood years. Included are conversations with children,…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism, Culturally Relevant Education, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Venn, Elizabeth Claire; Jahn, Monica Dacy – 2004
This book presents a preschool framework that integrates literacy activities into content area lessons while embedding instruction within adult-child social interactions and realistic, playful activities tailored to each child's individual needs. Chapter 1 of the book delineates the theory and rationale behind the framework, and outlines essential…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Classroom Techniques, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Educational Quality
Elkind, David – 1998
One of the many positive consequences of the transition to a postmodern society is the increased recognition of the range of individual differences among children of the same age. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the postmodern reinvention of childhood, focusing on ages 4 through 8 years. The book's introductory chapter describes the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Childhood Needs, Cognitive Style
Cassidy, Jack, Ed.; Garrett, Sherrye D., Ed. – 2002
This yearbook recounts the work in 2001 at the Early Childhood Development Center (ECDC) at Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi. Rather than an "elitist" laboratory school for the children of university faculty, the ECDC is a collaboration between the Corpus Christi Independent School District and the university, with an enrollment…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Child Development, Child Development Centers, Childrens Literature