Table of Contents

PART 1: YOUNG CHILDREN AND LANGUAGE 1. Understanding Oral Language 2. Theories and Phases of Oral Language Development 3. Early Childhood Settings and Oral Language Learning and Development 4. Key Early Childhood Learning Contexts and Oral Language 5. Learning Experiences and Activities for Speaking and Listening 6. Language, Thinking and Learning 7. Assessment: Speaking and Listening PART 2: UNDERSTANDING LITERACY: READING & WRITING 8. Understanding Literacy: Definitions and Theoretical Perspectives 9. Understanding Reading 10. Phonological Awareness, Graphophonic Relationships and Sight Words 11. Strategies for Teaching Reading 12. Vocabulary for Reading and Writing 13. Reading for Comprehension 14. Developing Reading Fluency PART 3: LEARNING TO WRITE 15. Introduction to Writing 16. Writing Purpose and Text Organisation 17. The Writing Conventions: Grammar and Punctuation 18. Spelling and Handwriting 19. Key Strategies for Teaching Writing 20. Writing Experiences and Activities 21. Writing: Assessment and Evaluation PART 4: FRAMING LANGUAGE AND LITERACY LEARNING 22. Children's Literature 23. Visual and Critical literacy 24. Literacy and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) 25. Connecting with Families 26. Planning for Language and Literacy Teaching and Learning

About the Author

Janet Fellowes is a Senior Lecturer of Language and Literacy Education in Early Childhood within the School of Education at Edith Cowan University. Dr. Fellowes is recipient of ECU Vice Chancellors Award for Programs that Enhance Student learning, 2006.

Grace Oakley is an Associate Professor within the Graduate School of Education at the University of Western Australia.

Reviews

"Language, Literacy and Early Childhood Education is a valuable text, of benefit to both pre-service teachers and to early childhood practitioners in under-five settings adn for educators in the first years of school. It is contemporary in its approach and very practical in it's orientation, while the ideas suggested for the support of young children's developing language and literacy competency are grounded in established theoretical perspectives and solid research. This book is an excellent resource and I applaud the authors for thier work." Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2013