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This book examines emergent literacy as the foundations for language instruction and seeks to relate the work of those doing research on literacy acquisition and those designing programs to facilitate children's literacy development.

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Included are chapters on the definition and classification of children's folklore, the presence of children's folklore in literature and popular culture, and the scholarly interpretation of children's folklore.

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This text presents an integrative theoretical model which covers the field of make-believe play research (cognitive, clinical and developmental psychology, linguistics, sociology, anthropology) and its applications in psychotherapy and education.

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Presents a survey of the linguistic issues facing children growing up in indigenous communities. This book illustrates the linguistic diversity that can be found in such communities. It examines a wide range of factors which relate to the divergence between home and school language for children growing up in indigenous multilingual communities.

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Presents a survey of the linguistic issues facing children growing up in indigenous communities. This book illustrates the linguistic diversity that can be found in such communities. It examines a wide range of factors which relate to the divergence between home and school language for children growing up in indigenous multilingual communities.

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The popular notion of how children come to speak their first language is that their parents teach them words, then phrases, then sentences, then longer utterances. But there is widespread agreement amongst linguists that this account is wrong. This book aims to give readers the background necessary to form their own views on the debate.

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The popular notion of how children come to speak their first language is that their parents teach them words, then phrases, then sentences, then longer utterances. But there is widespread agreement amongst linguists that this account is wrong. This book aims to give readers the background necessary to form their own views on the debate.

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Librarians in school and public libraries, media specialists, and library science instructors will find helpful, cogent advice on collection development programming, collection maintenance, and reevaluation nonprint media, summer programs, publicity, public relations, and much more!

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A study of children's authors who are typical of their time, such as Enid Blyton, Angela Brazil, Judy Blume and Roald Dahl. The book discusses comics as well as "classic" texts, and the possible effects of these materials on children's attitudes.

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But perhaps more surprisingly, children's literature is especially sensitive to such matters, and fiction for children often struggles with dark and unpleasant issues.

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Featuring close readings of commonly studied texts, this book takes students of Children's Literature through the key works, their contexts and critical and popular afterlives. It begins by introducing key issues involved in the study of children's literature and its social, cultural and literary contexts.

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Featuring close readings of commonly studied texts, this book takes students of Children's Literature through the key works, their contexts and critical and popular afterlives. It begins by introducing key issues involved in the study of children's literature and its social, cultural and literary contexts.

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Leading international scholars and teacher educators explore the latest research into the effective uses of children's literature in language teaching for children and young adults.

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Emerging from the Children's Literature Assembly's post conference workshop following the 1999 NCTE fall conference, this compilation of delivered speeches and reflective chapters offers insight into the broad development of American children's literature in the 20th century.

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Bringing together the expertise of high profile international teachers and researchers, this handbook provides anyone studying Children's Literature with useful and practical guidance on research methods. Wide-ranging and balanced in approach, the book covers core topics such as approaching history, visual material, archives and theory.

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Helps instructors as they engage their students in discussions about selection of materials, censorship, dealing with curricular issues, the need to understand administrative policies, community beliefs, and their responses to these issues. This work includes guides for possible resources for help in researching situations.

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Part of "Continuum Studies in Educational Research" series, this book presents an analysis of how children in their first year of high school feel about their schools, its place in their lives, and its role in their futures.

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Intended chiefly for teachers and trainee teachers, this series places strong emphasis on practice, but at the same time incorporates the latest research in the field. The book demonstrates a strong belief in the ability of children to learn, and in the ability of teachers to increase children's learning potential.

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From aquariums to zoos, this unique international reference source for museums for children (including science centers, planetariums, botanical gardens, and art centers) provides 235 institutional profiles.

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This volume offers profiles of 423 titles published during the past two hundred years. For its full descriptions of magazines, its bibliographies, publication histories, and location sources, Children's Periodicals of the United States is a much needed work.