"Literacy Development in the Early Years," by renowned author Lesley Mandel Morrow, is an integrated approach to language arts that gives pre-service and in-service teachers a wealth of valuable information for making children active participants in the process of literacy development. The many ideas are presented through both theoretical and research-based rationales, plus extensive practical applications-teacher and child dialogues; vignettes; lessons; and model interactions between teachers, children, and parents. A comprehensive, balanced approach to literacy teaching and learning, the book provides a wealth of information on how children learn, coupled with the literacy skills and strategies teachers need to make it all happen.
Biased, inaccurate at times. Was it even edited? There's an entire repeated paragraph at the beginning of chapter four. Bad textbooks are my college pet peeve. Seriously, I had to pay so much for this book and it sucks. Learned all of this in my community college child development class through like three PowerPoints and they at least were edited well. Also all the photos are blurry. And the "anecdotes" drove me nuts and made me roll my eyes so many times. I drew sad faces and eyes rolling with my highlighter while reading. Boo.