This practical, accessible guide for parents, child care providers, and family support professionals presents techniques for supporting early language experiences, from baby babbling through
the pre-literacy skills of kindergartners. The book provides language building activities, gives advice on books for children, and provides background on young children's emotional and social
development, memory, bilingualism, and the process of learning to read, with summaries of research written in reader-friendly terms. A study guide at the end of the book provides review,
reflection, and discussion questions, plus observation and application activities for each chapter, making the book useful for classes and training workshops. Bardige is vice president at the
A. L. Mailman Family Foundation. Annotation 穢2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
