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 needs
- Emphasizes language and literacy supporting strategies in a variety of
everyday classroom settings
- Includes activities and questions to motivate readers to think and
develop their own perspectives on language and literacy development
- Considers a variety of different language acquisition experiences,
including monolingual, multilingual, and language impairment
- Discusses different types of literacies, including digital and
hypertext
- Connects language and literacy development to identity and motivation
to contextualize learning styles for pre-service teachers
- Supported 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