{"product_id":"understanding-language-and-literacy-development-isbn-9780470674307","title":"Understanding Language and Literacy Development","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Language and Literacy Development: Diverse Learners in the Classroom\u003c\/i\u003e offers effective supporting strategies to address the cultural and linguistic diversity of students in contemporary classrooms.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiscusses 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEmphasizes language and literacy supporting strategies in a variety of everyday classroom settings\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes activities and questions to motivate readers to think and develop their own perspectives on language and literacy development\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsiders a variety of different language acquisition experiences, including monolingual, multilingual, and language impairment\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiscusses different types of literacies, including digital and hypertext\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConnects language and literacy development to identity and motivation to contextualize learning styles for pre-service teachers\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSupported 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eDetailed Contents vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the Companion Website xx\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the Book 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Introduction 13\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Working with Diverse Students: Some Important Issues 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Complex Factors That Influence Language Acquisition and Literacy Development 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguage Sample Analysis I 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Developing Language and Emergent Literacies: Divergent Abilities in Infancy and Early Childhood (Birth to 5) 63\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Acquiring One Linguistic System: First Language Acquisition 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Acquiring More Than One Linguistic System: Multilingual First Language Acquisition 111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Acquiring First Language(s) with Difficulties 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguage Sample Analysis II 177\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Developing Language and Literacies: Divergent Abilities in Middle Childhood (6–11) 181\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Typical Development of Language and Literacies in Middle Childhood 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Learning a New Language in Middle Childhood 224\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Language Impairment in Middle Childhood 259\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguage Sample Analysis III 282\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Developing Language and Literacies: Divergent Abilities in Adolescence (12–18) 289\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Typical Development of Language and Literacies in Adolescence 291\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Learning English As a New Language in Adolescence 320\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Language Impairment in Adolescence 354\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguage Sample Analysis IV 369\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Theoretical Perspectives on Language and Literacy Development and Learning 375\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12 Theories That Explain Language Acquisition and Literacy Development 377\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExit Self-Evaluation 405\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix: Examples of Standardized Language Assessments 408\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary 410\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 423\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 448\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eXiao-lei Wang\u003c\/b\u003e is a Professor in the School of Education at Pace University, USA. She has published extensively in academic journals and is the author of\u003ci\u003e Learning to Read and Write in the Multilingual Family\u003c\/i\u003e (2011) and \u003ci\u003eGrowing up with Three Languages\u003c\/i\u003e (2008).\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“Xiao-lei Wang’s excellent volume, grounded in the best basic research and practice, provides a strong background in language and literacy diversity for elementary and secondary subject matter teachers.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam C. Ritchie,\u003c\/b\u003e Syracuse University\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Great book! Dr. Wang combines the skill of a researcher, the passion of a teacher, and the love of a mother of two trilingual sons. A must-read!” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean-Marc Dewaele,\u003c\/b\u003e Birkbeck College, University of London\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday’s schools are characterized by significant cultural and linguistic diversity – and teaching is correspondingly becoming an increasingly complex, multifaceted, and challenging endeavor. \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Language and Literacy Development\u003c\/i\u003e features a wide variety of effective supporting strategies to address the varying language and literacy developmental characteristics of children and adolescents in contemporary classroom settings. Utilizing critical discourse analysis as a conceptual framework, Wang examines the complexity of language and literacy and their roles in academic learning. The author expertly discusses children’s developmental stages, considering a wide range of topics including English language acquisition among children and adolescents – and the typical issues related to comprehension and production at different stages and ages of acquisition – as well as the impact of various language impairments (from SLI to autism). Special features of this work include questions that engage and challenge the reader throughout the chapters, and exercises designed to facilitate understanding of language phenomena in the classroom and elsewhere; the author also ties her discussion into the new Common Core standards that underlie the public school curriculum. Innovative and timely, this is an invaluable resource to assist in meeting the teaching challenges of twenty-first century classrooms. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA companion website with additional resources is available at \u003cb\u003ewww.wiley.com\/go\/wang\/langandlit\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990430630117,"sku":"NP9780470674307","price":40.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780470674307.jpg?v=1761787797","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/understanding-language-and-literacy-development-isbn-9780470674307","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}