""Marian Whitehead's re-focused priorities of babies as powerful
thinkers, the significance of non-verbal communication, the importance
of language play, the roots of emergent literacy and the notion of
language and education as shared community endeavours make her book the
one to choose for today's world."
Early Years Update"
Radically rewritten and updated in light of new research and
developments, the new edition of this important book gives clear
guidance to early years practitioners on how to support young children's
language and literacy development.
The book covers the age range 0-7 years and highlights the speed and
complexity of this period of growth in children's thinking,
communicative abilities, language, social and cultural awareness and
physical skills. Child observations and case studies and photographs are
used to demonstrate the learning that goes on in a variety of homes and
early years settings.
New and key features include: An expanded chapter showing a range of
good practices in three different settings (nursery school, integrated
children's centre and Steiner kindergartens) A new chapter reviewing the
statutory national requirements for communication, language and literacy
in the UK Additional case studies (including children in the final year
of the Foundation Stage) End of chapter summaries Updated further
reading Notes on provision and activities for supporting young
children's development at ends of each chapter "Supporting Language and
Literacy Development in the Early Years" is valuable reading for early
years students and practitioners.
