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Author: David K. Dickinson ,
Ann B. Morse
Publisher: Brookes Publishing Co
Imprint: Brookes Publishing Co
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.20cm
, Length: 22.80cm
Weight: 0.355kg
ISBN: 9781681252315
ISBN 10: 1681252317
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 31 March 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
Impressively researched, exceptionally well written, deftly organized and presented, Connecting Through Talk: Nurturing Children's Development With Language is a seminal body of meticulous scholarship. --James A. Cox
How would one gain a deep and coherent understanding of the rich body of research on children's early language development that has accumulated over the past half century? The right answer is, Read Dickinson and Morse's Connecting Through Talk ; an erudite, well written, engaging, and wise exploration of children's language growth and of the programs designed to encourage it. --Timothy Shanahan, Ph.D.
Bravo! At last a book that captures the range of factors that contributes to early literacy! Passionate about helping children learn to read from the inception of their careers, these authors understand the crucial role that language development plays. This delightful and highly readable book dotted with illustrative anecdotes has captured important findings on emerging literacy and the programs that help it flourish. It is a great read for parents, practitioners, and inquisitive minds who want to understand the science of reading. --Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Ph.D.
Author Information
After 5 years of experience teaching in elementary schools in the Philadelphia area, David K. Dickinson, Ed.D., attended the Harvard Graduate School of Education and then served as Director of Teacher Education at the Child Study Department at Tufts University and joined the Education Department at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he received tenure. He moved to the Education Development Center (EDC) in 1994 to join the team that developed the Early Childhood Generalist certificate for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. In 1995 he established the New England Research Center on Head Start Quality, which examined the impact of Head Start on children's language and literacy development and on families, with special attention to the development of children whose first language is Spanish. He and Catherine Snow received the initial funding that launched the Home-School Study of Language and Literacy Development in 1987, and he directed the school portion of the study during the preschool years. Drawing on early results from this study, he and colleagues at EDC developed the Literacy Environment Enrichment Project, an approach to helping preschool teachers and their supervisors adopt more effective practices to support children's language and literacy. He and others at EDC are developing and researching a version of this program that will be delivered using the Internet in combination with interactive television. His work has been published in numerous articles, and he has edited two other books, Bridges to Literacy: Children, Families and Schools (Blackwell, 1994) and Handbook of Early Literacy Research (co-edited with Susan Neuman, Guilford Press, 2001). He and Miriam W. Smith are co-authors (with Angela Sangeorge & Louisa Anastasopoulos) of the Early Language and Literacy Classroom Observation Toolkit, Research Edition (Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 2002), a set of tools for evaluating the quality of literacy support in early childhood classrooms.
