Understanding Language and Literacy Development

<p><i>Understanding Language and Literacy Development: Diverse Learners in the Classroom</i> offers effective supporting strategies to address the cultural and linguistic diversity of students in contemporary classrooms.</p> <ul> <li>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</li> <li>Emphasizes language and literacy supporting strategies in a variety of everyday classroom settings</li> <li>Includes activities and questions to motivate readers to think and develop their own perspectives on language and literacy development</li> <li>Considers a variety of different language acquisition experiences, including monolingual, multilingual, and language impairment</li> <li>Discusses different types of literacies, including digital and hypertext</li> <li>Connects language and literacy development to identity and motivation to contextualize learning styles for pre-service teachers</li> <li>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</li> </ul>