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a guide for teachers and caregivers of children from birth through age 5
"Building Literacy With Love suggests loving and supportive ways teachers and caregivers can foster children's ability to become literate. This book offers fun activities and practical suggestions for implementing effective, research-based teaching practices in child-care settings." "This practical guide will help you learn the skills, concepts, and processes intrinsic to learning to read and write and ways adults can help; understand the importance of relationships in children's literacy development and how to establish loving and responsive relationships with individual children that support their development; examine how children from culturally diverse families and communities gain supportive literacy experiences; and benefit from numerous fun and practical activities to promote phonemics, phonetic awareness, alphabetic knowledge, and fluency."--BOOK JACKET.
Overview -- Building a social-emotional foundation -- Engaging all children -- Building the language foundation -- Classroom conversations -- Using books to support language -- The "outside-in" domain -- The "inside-out" domain -- Creating an environment that enhances emergent literacy -- Fostering literacy through art, music, and pretending -- Assessing children's projects -- Partnering with families -- Celebrating literacy together.