Research in Young Children's Literacy and Language Development: Language and literacy development for different populations - Paperback

by Olivia N. Saracho (Editor)

This book presents a series of studies, and researchers' ideas, that describe how children acquire language and literacy and how their knowledge in language and literacy progress from infancy through the preschool years and to the early years of school. Based on the results of the studies, all authors offer research and practical applications in early childhood education. Readers can use this book as a starting point to conduct future studies that contribute to theory, while practitioners can use the studies' results to promote and support the children's language and literacy in their classrooms. This book was originally published as a special issue of Early Child Development and Care.

Author Biography

Olivia N. Saracho is Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. She is a former bilingual teacher, and has taught Head Start, preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school classes. Her current research and writing is in the field of early childhood education, and she has conducted research on children's play, emergent literacy, and family literacy. She is co-author of Foundations of early childhood education (with Spodek and Davis, 1991), Right from the start: Teaching children ages three to eight (with Spodek, 1994), Dealing with Individual differences in the early childhood classroom (with Spodek, 1994), and An integrated play-based curriculum for young children (2012); and co-editor of the Handbook of Research Methods in Early Childhood Education (2014).