The role of parent-child and teacher-child shared story telling and storybook reading is a key vehicle for supporting children's development of emergent literacy and early language skills. This highly usable and practical book brings the advantages of sharing books and stories to educational and clinical settings, effectively demonstrating how it may be used to support: print knowledge phonological awareness vocabulary inferential language abilities grammatical and narrative skills With contributions from notable scholars who actively conduct research in the areas of education, developmental psychology, speech language pathology, reading, and early literacy, this unique resource synthesizes and applies current theory and research on uses of sharing books and stories in educational and intervention contexts.

Life has not been easy for Marta and her daughter, Jannah. On the brink of losing her home and suffering from a broken heart, Marta has lost all hope. James has never gotten over the fact that he wasn’t able to be a father to his own daughter. When he became Marta’s next-door neighbor years later, he was overjoyed to finally be the father he always wanted to be and has worked on building a relationship with Marta and Jannah ever since. Will he ever have the heart to connect Marta with the biological mother she has never known? Donna had known placing her daughter for adoption was something she never should have done. And she knows James now has the relationship with their daughter she has always wanted. But what will her other children say if they find out? And what will Marta say to her? Does she even have a right to make amends? Four broken hearts entwine, and they can be healed only by the hand of God. Will secrets be brought to light before it’s too late? And through it all, will they realize God says forgiveness is Mine to Share?

What’s the best way to share books with your 1-year-old? Here are some tips that cover 3 stages in your baby’s life: 12 to 14 months, 15 to 17 months, and 18 to 24 months.

What’s the best way to share books with your 1-year-old? Here are some tips that cover 3 stages in your baby’s life: 12 to 14 months, 15 to 17 months, and 18 to 24 months.

This book describes a doctoral research project which aims at investigating actual practices of dialogic oriented shared book reading targeting immigrant children in German kindergartens. In this particular research project, the potential contributions of these practices to children's German as second language learning were also assessed. The participants of the study were five native German speaking kindergarten teachers (Erzieherinnen) and five groups of four to six children ages 3- 6 years old. The data sources were videotaped shared book reading sessions which were afterwards transcribed and analysed by using content analysis method. The analysis phases of the study revealed the following findings: 1) there were three different forms of interactions found during the observed shared book reading situations; 2) there were various educators' strategies and children's behaviours observed during the videotaped shared book reading situations, which to some extent were congruent; 3) there were potential contributions of different forms of interactions to children's second language learning. Eventually, the findings of this study are expected to give theoretical and methodological contributions to the field of early childhood second language learning. Moreover, it is also expected to be a solid empirical basis to support the improvement of language promotion programs for immigrant children in German kindergartens.

Build early reading, writing, and math skills with these irresistible class-made books! Includes easy how-to's and patterns for twelve rhyming books on the math topics you teach: Apple Counting, Shape Cat, Ladybug Subtraction, Pizza Fraction, 100th Day of School, and more. A truly innovative resource! For use with Grades K-2.

What’s the best way to share books with your preschooler? Here are some tips that cover age 3 and age 4 of your child’s life?

An excellent, easy to use tool for those new to working with this early years age range, as well as more experienced practitioners.

What’s the best way to share books with your school-age child? Here are some tips that cover ages 5 and older of your child’s life.

A simple story about the little acts of sharing and kindness that make a day special. A hand is perfect for holding. A smile is just right for hello. A pinkie is waiting to promise and FRIENDS, best friends, are for sharing. Come join two best friends on a camping trip as they share the wonderful things they do outdoors with family and friends: meals, laughter, adventures, stories, campfire songs. All the things that make an outdoor experience exciting and memorable. But the most important thing—love—more than anything else, is always for sharing.