Understanding Language and Literacy Development

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<p><i>Understanding Language and Literacy Development: Diverse Learners in the Classroom</i> offers effective supporting strategies to address the cultural and linguistic diversity of students in contemporary classrooms.</p><ul><li>Discusses learners with different linguistic abilitiesinfancy, early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescenceby suggesting effective ways to reach them based on their strengths and needs</li><li>Emphasizes language and literacy supporting strategies in a variety of everyday classroom settings</li><li>Includes activities and questions to motivate readers to think and develop their own perspectives on language and literacy development</li><li>Considers a variety of different language acquisition experiences, including monolingual, multilingual, and language impairment</li><li>Discusses different types of literacies, including digital and hypertext</li><li>Connects language and literacy development to identity and motivation to contextualize learning styles for pre-service teachers</li><li>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 K12 English Language Arts Standards</li></ul>

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<p><b>Xiao-lei Wang</b> is a Professor in the School of Education at Pace University, USA. She has published extensively in academic journals and is the author of<i> Learning to Read and Write in the Multilingual Family</i> (2011) and<i>Growing up with Three Languages</i> (2008).</p>

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