Here's the Story

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.