Creative Literacy in Action: Birth through Age Nine
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This new early literacy textbook birth through age nine focuses on creative literacy instruction through active participation of teachers parents and children providing preservice teachers with practical strategies and activities that can be adapted to meet the needs of diverse learners It offers a comprehensive view of literacy development and instruction including assessment phonemic awareness and emergent literacy as well as phonics vocabulary reading writing and arts integration in diverse classrooms The authors holistic approach explains why and how reading and language arts should be taught from the perspective of the whole child with an emphasis on creativity in a nurturing learning environment Their unique perspective integrates the arts educational psychology and literacy instruction represented throughout the text by the incorporation of the cognitive socio emotional and physical parts of the self into a visual Holistic Model of Literacy