Daniel Meier | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

Featuring contributions from a unique mix of authors—classroom teachers, teacher educators, and children’s book authors—this volume explores the value of stories in promoting children’s language and literacy learning. Major sections cover the most fundamental and critical foundations for language and literacy growth—including first language learning, multilingual learning, and literacy development—and then focus on the forms and functions of story from infants and toddlers to the upper elementary grades. Here's the Story is a practical text that offers the conceptual and theoretical background for promoting new ways of bringing narrative to the forefront of children’s current language and literacy learning.


Book Features:




Original examples of exemplary instruction from multilingual and multicultural settings.
Practical suggestions and ideas for caregiving and teaching.
Interviews with celebrated children’s books authors Nina Crews and Elisa Kleven.