Literacy & Language

Give children a variety of ways to fall in love with rhythm, rhyme, repetition and structural sequence - important building blocks for future readers. Over 700 selections. 507 pgs.

This handy reference guide to the ten most common languages of students who do not speak English - Spanish, Russian, Vietnamese, Arabic, Tagalog, Haitian Creole, Navajo, Hmong, Cantonese, and Korean - offers practical guidance for communicating with ELL students and their families. Includes information about the culture of the family's country of origin; guides to common words and phrases; picture dictionaries that can be reproduced for use with students; sample parent letters with English and native… More »

This book addresses the features of emergent literacy and the strategies that teachers can use to help infants and toddlers begin to acquire these skills. 224 pages.

This book provides trainers and directors with everything they need to train teachers to develop children's literacy skills. It includes 10 comprehensive, 3-hour training modules. The accompanying CD-ROM contains PowerPoint presentations and files of the handouts. This package provides a complete in-service program for groups of any size with work shops in Fostering Language Development, Beyond Open and Closed Questions, Supporting English Language Learners, Phonological and Phonemic Awareness,… More »

Over 450 rhymes, songs, stories, and fingerplays with Spanish and English on each page to help build vocabulary and language skills. Organized by theme. 384 pages.