This edited volume helps early childhood professionals understand critical, key early literacy issues in context by presenting current classroom practices and then making recommendations for improving early childhood literacy outcomes based on what research shows is best practice.Synopsis - This book explores the ways in which young children's literacy knowledge develops through preschool and into the early school years. Each chapter begins with descriptions of actual classroom experiences and then demonstrates how those experiences relate to early literacy theory, ultimately offering a digestible, accessible overview of key early childhood education topics professionals must understand to support successful child outcomes. The book presents ideas for creating classroom environments conducive to learning and effective strategies for teaching young children to read. It gives early childhood professionals insight on how literacy develops in young children while showing what practice looks like in real classrooms.This book is a co-publication with the High/Scope Early Reading Institute.

Foreword by: Susan B. Neuman