false 552552 1 With <i>Literacy Through Play</i>, Gretchen Owocki revealed to thousands of early childhood educators what a virtual gold mine play is for facilitating literacy learning. Now, with <i>Make Way for Literacy!</i>, Owocki offers effective guidelines for creating a classroom community that supports children's developing literacies. <p><i>Make Way for Literacy!</i> starts with a brief explanation of how literacy begins to develop, first in a child's home and neighborhood. Owocki points out the various individual traits, family activities, and basic literacy practices that can be so influential - and then focuses on preschool, kindergarten, and the primary grades. Next, the book offers four key principles for understanding and facilitating literacy, along with easy-to-follow techniques for starting - or refining - teacher research and inquiry in the classroom. <p>The bulk of the text is devoted to practical, curriculum-enhancing literacy engagements. For each type of engagement, Owocki explains how it fosters language and literacy development; provides ideas for instruction, assessment, evaluation, and teacher research; offers practical methods and materials for getting the engagement started; suggests related activities involving art, drama, movement, writing, drawing, talk, or play; and includes actual teaching and learning examples from classrooms. 539790 2001 Make Way for Literacy! Teaching the Way Young Children Learn 0 0 1 0 0 0 false false Wed May 28 13:43:15 -0700 2008 Wed May 28 13:43:19 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=552552