Spotlight on Young Children: Exploring Language and Literacy: Exploring Language & Literacy (Spotlight on Young Children series) - Softcover

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Amy Shillady is journal editor for NAEYC’s award-winning Young Children. She facilitates the peer review process, performs developmental editing of articles, and serves as the primary editor for journal columns. Amy also edits selected NAEYC Spotlight Series books.

Leah Schoenberg Muccio was editorial associate at NAEYC.

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One of the notable features of this compilation is that it helps us think about promoting children’s language and literacy skills early―during the infant and toddler years. This is well justified. Numerous studies suggest that the quality of language experiences in the earliest years of life affects children’s later language development (e.g., Hart & Risley 1995; Hadley et al. 2011). The content in this collection continues through the second and third grade years. Such focus is critical, as children’s language and literacy skills in these grades predict later literacy achievement (e.g., Nation & Snowling 2004; Catts et al. 2012).