Emergent Literacy in Kindergarten

The past several decades have spawned considerable research on emergent literacy. This authoritative book makes that research available and accessible to early childhood educators. By summarizing all of the relevant National Research Council data and presenting related recommendations from IRA and NAEYC, it enables teachers to create instructional programs that are based upon sound thinking. Emergent Literacy in Kindergarten: examines the linguistic features that function as cues in written language, enabling teachers to more effectively scaffold children into literacy explores the research on the components of comprehension, including concepts about print, books, written text, vocabulary, and the text structure of the narrative genre (story content) and the expository genre (factual content) presents research on the components of phonological processing and phonological recoding reviews research on children's writing in preschool and kindergarten, including studies of children's conceGretchen Ross is the author of 'Emergent Literacy in Kindergarten', published 2001 under ISBN 9780970755605 and ISBN 0970755600.