Language,Literacy and Early Childhood Education, fourth edition, focuses on language and literacy development in children from birth to age eight, with a particular emphasis on four- to eight-year-olds.
It describes pedagogical practices that will allow pre-service teachers to plan for play-based learning while also employing other approaches such as explicit teaching, collaborative learning and learning though exploration and discovery. Making explicit links to the Early Years Learning Framework and the Australian Curriculum, this book is based on current research and theoretical perspectives and includes practical strategies and activities to equip pre-service teachers with the knowledge and skills they need to effectively support young children's learning of language and literacy.
This book is recognised for making sense of the complex process of children becoming literate in early childhood. It addresses the five key areas of literacy: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension.
Chapter
1. Introduction to Literacy: Definitions and Theoretical
PerspectivesPART 1 Young Children and LanguageChapter
2. Children's
LiteratureChapter
3. Understanding Oral LanguageChapter
4. Oral Language:
Perspectives and PhasesChapter
5. Early Childhood Settings and Oral Language
Learning and DevelopmentChapter
6. Key Early Childhood Learning Contexts for
Oral LanguageChapter
7. Learning Experiences and Activities for Speaking and
ListeningChapter
8. Language, Thinking and LearningChapter
9. Assessing
Speaking and ListeningPART 2 Young Children and ReadingChapter
10.
Understanding ReadingChapter
11. Phonological AwarenessChapter
12.
Graphophonic Knowledge and Word IdentificationChapter
13. Vocabulary for
Reading and WritingChapter
14. Strategies for Teaching ReadingChapter
15.
Reading for ComprehensionChapter
16. Developing Reading FluencyPART 3 Young
Children and WritingChapter
17. Introduction to WritingChapter
18. Writing
Purpose and Text OrganisationChapter
19. The Writing Conventions: Grammar and
PunctuationChapter
20. Spelling and HandwritingChapter
21. Key Strategies for
Teaching WritingChapter
22. Writing Experiences and ActivitiesChapter
23.
Assessing and Evaluating WritingPART 04 Framing Language and Literacy
LearningChapter
24. Critical Literacy and Visual LiteracyChapter
25. Digital
Technologies and LiteracyChapter
26. Connecting with FamiliesChapter
27.
Planning for Language and Literacy
Janet Fellowes is a consultant in language and literacy education and works with schools and classroom teachers as well as relevant educational organisations. She is currently engaged by the Academic Clinics for Exceptional Students (WA) as a Senior Manager- - Literacy specialist. She was previously a Senior Lecturer at Edith Cowan University where, for many years she taught early childhood and primary teacher education courses for many years. She continues to work with local Western Australian Universities and remains passionate about the quality of their students' learning as language and literacy educators.
Grace Oakley is an Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia, specialising in language and literacy pedagogy and practice. She has extensive experience in teaching pre-service teachers and coordinating initial teacher education courses, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She has had classroom experience in K--7 classrooms, including Languages teaching. Grace's research interests and publications focus on the uses of digital technologies in the teaching and learning of language and literacy, inclusive practices and teacher education.
