Aprender a leer y escribir constituye uno de los pilares básicos del ámbito escolar. Esta finalidad, representa asimismo una de las preocupaciones más importantes de los profesores y padres en los primeros años de la escolaridad. Son muchos los estudios que durante los últimos años se vienen realizando para determinar los procesos fundamentales que el niño utiliza para aprender a leer y escribir. Afortunadamente gracias a estas investigaciones, ya se conocen hoy los procesos cognitivos que el niño emplea en este aprendizaje. Son precisamente éstos, los aspectos que se desarrollan en este libro con el fin de facilitar que ese aprendizaje sea lo más rápido y eficaz. En este material hemos incluido además, unas tareas de diagnóstico y evaluación que nos van a permitir conocer el grado de desarrollo de las habilidades fonólogicas del niño, con el propósito de trabajar a partir de sus propios conocimientos, así como de identificar los progresos que se van adquiriendo. Este material ha sido elaborado por un equipo de profesores que en su práctica diaria tenían la necesidad de disponer de un programa específico de preparación para el aprendizaje de la lectura y escritura, el cual, está constituido por numerosas actividades debidamente secuenciadas y adecuadas para el logro de la madurez necesaria para el aprendizaje lectoescritor.

An up-to-date, accessible guide for parents of bilingual children.

The authors provide tools, tips, and examples for teaching vocabulary in this complementary companion to Bringing words to life.

This powerful book tells the story of one teacher's odyssey to understand the inner world of immigrant children, and to create a learning environment that is responsive to these students' feelings and their needs. Featuring the voices and artwork of many immigrant children, this text portrays the immigrant experience of uprooting, culture shock, and adjustment to a new world, and then describes cultural, academic, and psychological interventions that facilitate learning as immigrant students make the transition to a new language and culture. Particularly relevant for courses dealing with multicultural and bilingual education, foundations of education, and literacy curriculum and instruction, this text is essential reading for all teachers who will -- or currently do -- work in today's school environment.

This is the first book on the acquisition of Spanish that provides a state-of-the-art comprehensive overview of Spanish morphosyntactic development in monolingual and bilingual situations. Its content is organized around key grammatical themes that form the empirical base of research in generative grammar: nominal and verbal inflectional morphology, subject and object pronouns, complex structures involving movement (topicalizations, questions, relative clauses), and aspects of verb meaning that have consequences for syntax. The book argues that Universal Grammar constrains all instances of language acquisition and that there is a fundamental continuity between monolingual, bilingual, child and adult early grammatical systems. While stressing their similarities with respect to linguistic representations and processes, the book also considers important differences between these three acquisition situations with respect to the outcome of acquisition. It is also shown that many linguistic properties of Spanish are acquired earlier than in English and other languages. This book is a must read for those interested in the acquisition of Spanish from different theoretical perspectives as well as those working on the acquisition of other languages in different contexts.

Now in its third edition, the Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts—sponsored by the International Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English—offers an integrated perspective on the teaching of the English language arts and a comprehensive overview of research in the field. Prominent scholars, researchers, and professional leaders provide historical and theoretical perspectives about teaching the language arts focus on bodies of research that influence decision making within the teaching of the language arts explore the environments for language arts teaching reflect on methods and materials for instruction Reflecting important recent developments in the field, the Third Edition is restructured, updated, and includes many new contributors. More emphasis is given in this edition to the learner, multiple texts, learning, and sharing one’s knowledge. A Companion Website, new for this edition, provides PowerPoint® slides highlighting the main points of each chapter.