Understanding Language and Literacy Development

Understanding Language and Literacy Development: Diverse Learners in the Classroom offers effective supporting strategies to address the cultural and linguistic diversity of students in contemporary classrooms. 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 needsEmphasizes language and literacy supporting strategies in a variety of everyday classroom settingsIncludes activities and questions to motivate readers to think and develop their own perspectives on language and literacy developmentConsiders a variety of different language acquisition experiences, including monolingual, multilingual, and language impairmentDiscusses different types of literacies, including digital and hypertextConnects language and literacy development to identity and motivation to contextualize learning styles for pre-service teachersSupported 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