Literacy Development -- It's All in the Name -- Learning About Writing Begins Informally -- The Role of Letter Name Knowledge in Early Spelling Development: Evidence from Brazilian Portuguese -- An Eye for Print: Child and Adult Attention to Print During Shared Book Reading -- The Role of Hebrew Letter Names in Early Literacy: The Case of Multi-phonemic Acrophonic Names -- Promoting Literacy at Home and in School -- The Early Childhood Project: A 5-Year Longitudinal Investigation of Children's Literacy Development in Sociocultural Context -- Early Literacy at Home: General Environmental Factors and Specific Parent Input -- Reading Books to Young Children: What It Does and Does Not Do -- The Making of Literate Families: Considerations of Context and Misconceptions -- Spellings of Words: A Neglected Facilitator of Vocabulary Learning -- Early Schooling and Growth of Literacy in the Transition to School -- Bilingualism -- Acquiring a Second Spoken and Written Language -- Role of Orthography in Literacy Acquisition and Literacy Problems Among Monolinguals and Bilinguals -- Becoming Literate in a Foreign Language -- Rudiments of Inflectional Morphology Skills in Emergent English-Hebrew Biliterates -- Early Identification and Intervention to Prevent Reading Difficulties -- Teaching and Learning -- Whatever Happened to Pedagogical Theory?
Summary
Presents a comprehensive collection of international research on literacy development and enhancement in this changing multicultural and multilingual world. This book intends to bring together the innovative research from across the world focusing on the development of early literacy in different orthographies
