Product Description: "This volume examines early literacy research on a global scale and puts social, cultural, and historical analyses in the front seat--without losing sight of individual and family-level matters in the process. It is comprehensive, ground-breaking, and provocative, and should help literacy researchers to think differently about the field...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The second edition of this text shows how play and literacy can combine to help young children develop a more complete understanding of writing, as well as literacy more generally. In addition to discussing the implications of the new Guidance for the Foundation Stage, the authors use more recent research to extend the discussion of how and why play and literacy work together so powerfully, and provide further advice on planning and developing effective experiences...read more

Product Description: This book explores the social significance of letter writing. Letter writing is one of the most pervasive literate activities in human societies, crossing formal and informal contexts. Letters are a common text type, appearing in a wide variety of forms in most domains of life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Before more efficient and effective ways to teach punctuation can be developed, it must be understood how beginning readers and writers make sense of the subject. "Learning About Punctuation" seeks to determine what the evidence tells us...read more

Product Description: Good teachers are always looking for ways to help beginning readers and writers to understand what literacy is, how it works, who uses it, and what it is used for. Children who understand the nature and purpose of literacy are going to find learning to read and write a more satisfying, engaging and purposeful activity...read more

Product Description: Offering insights into the numerous ways in which interactive writing can facilitate children's writing skills, this book provides children with enjoyable reasons for authorship, and aids their transition from oral to written communication...read more

Product Description: "Some Day You Will No All About Me" is a fascinating account of children's letter writing over an extended period. It is both a highly enjoyable read and an important contribution to our understanding of young children's authorship...read more

Product Description: This is an introductory book on language and literacy, with the accent on encouraging readers to be reflective about the literacy teaching they may encounter and observe in schools. It provides a contemporary view of the way in which children learn to become literate, and the ways in which teachers facilitate this learning...read more

Product Description: It is only relatively recently that we have recognized that the acquisition of literacy is developmental and that development begins very early in life. Contemporary research on how literacy emerges clearly has implications for how we teach young children...read more