Publisher's Synopsis
Language and Literacy for the Early Years contains practical, everyday activities to weave language development and early literacy into your daily schedule. Use circle time, snack time, dramatic play, or any other time throughout the day to develop children's language and literacy skills. Each cross-curricular activity includes ways to enhance children's vocabularies, questions to help you evaluate children's progress, an annotated list of books, and suggested age-appropriate writing experiences. This book will be an invaluable resource for all early years settings from preschools and day centres to reception classes and nurseries.