{"product_id":"make-way-for-literacy-teaching-the-way-young-children-learn","title":"Make Way for Literacy! Teaching the Way Young Children Learn","description":"With Literacy Through Play, Gretchen Owocki revealed to thousands of early childhood educators what a virtual gold mine play is for facilitating literacy learning. Now, with Make Way for Literacy!, Owocki offers effective guidelines for creating a classroom community that supports children's developing literacies.\nMake Way for Literacy! starts with a brief explanation of how literacy begins to develop, first in a child's home and neighborhood. Owocki points out the various individual traits, family activities, and basic literacy practices that can be so influentialand then focuses on preschool, kindergarten, and the primary grades. Next, the book offers four key principles for understanding and facilitating literacy, along with easy-to-follow techniques for startingor refiningteacher research and inquiry in the classroom.\nThe bulk of the text is devoted to practical, curriculum-enhancing literacy engagements. For each type of engagement, Owocki explains how it fosters language and literacy development; provides ideas for instruction, assessment, evaluation, and teacher research; offers practical methods and materials for getting the engagement started; suggests related activities involving art, drama, movement, writing, drawing, talk, or play; and includes actual teaching and learning examples from classrooms.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0325002703\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: RDV.0325002703.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Owocki, Gretchen\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This book is in excellent condition. There may be minimal writing on the inside cover or cover page. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Reliant Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46659240362161,"sku":"RDV.0325002703.VG","price":6.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0544\/8872\/7729\/files\/0325002703-0.jpg?v=1771436288","url":"https:\/\/www.reliantbookstore.com\/products\/make-way-for-literacy-teaching-the-way-young-children-learn","provider":"Reliant Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}