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Hillman, Judith – 1975
The tradition of reading aloud to children has great intrinsic value and should be continued as part of the language arts program. Five major reasons for reading aloud to children can be gleaned from recent linguistic and psychological research and from folklore and intuition: (1) It allows the modeling of syntactic and phonemic language patterns,…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Identification (Psychology), Imitation
Download full textJaggar, Angela, Ed.; Smith-Burke, M. Trika, Ed. – 1985
Intended for teachers and others having responsibility for shaping language policy in the schools, this collection of invited, original articles is based on the belief that a teacher's task is not to "teach" children language but, rather, to create an environment that will allow language learning to occur naturally. The book is divided into four…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Development, Child Language, Classroom Environment
