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In this engaging text, author Dr. Cathy Nutbrown, a leading academic in early childhood education, identifies and explains key terms and practices central to the work and study of early childhood in this accessible reference text. Key Concepts in Early Childhood Education and Care is a must-read for practitioners working with children from birth to the end of the foundation stage, and for students following courses in early childhood education and care. It details key issues, identified in a survey of over 300 practitioners in the field, and provides reading and reference sources to assist practitioners and students in identifying further material to support their work.
Early Literacy Development
Early Literacy Development
Brief definition ‘Early literacy development’ is the term used to refer to the ways in which young children acquire understanding, skills and knowledge related to aspects of early literacy such as: using books, early writing, using environmental print and aspects of oral language.
Summary Outline:new ways of teaching literacy; Foundation Stage; ‘Communication, Language and Literacy’; ‘strands’ of early literacy development; environmental print, books, early writing and key aspects of oral language; research issues – environmental print, books, early writing, oral language (storytelling, phonological awareness, ‘talk about literacy’), new media and popular culture; examples from practice – developing a home-school writing project; references and indicative further reading.
Origins and Definitions
Until the 1970s early literacy development was largely overlooked. Nursery education tended to focus ...