The Early Literacy Handbook: Making sense of language and literacy with children birth to seven - a practical guide to the context approach

The heart of this book is a new approach to the teaching of language and literacy. Its focus is exemplary classroom practice built on rigorous theory and evidence.The approach combines new theory and dynamic practice in its advocacy for contextualised teaching. This book shows how the teaching of smaller units of language, such as sentences, words, letters and phonemes, follows naturally from the context of whole texts.

The book offers: practical examples, photographs from settings, case stu...