David K. Dickinson - Connecting Through Talk

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Dickinson, David K., author. | Morse, Ann B., author.

Title: Connecting through talk: nurturing childrens development with language / by David K. Dickinson, Ed.D., Peabody College of Education, Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee and Ann B. Morse, M.Ed., Nashville, Tennessee.

Description: Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., [2019] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018032013 (print) | LCCN 2018045687 (ebook) | ISBN 9781681252391 (epub) | ISBN 9781681252407 (pdf) | ISBN 9781681252315 (pbk.)

Subjects: LCSH: Language arts (Early childhood) | ChildrenLanguage. | Early childhood development.

Classification: LCC LB1139.5.L35 (ebook) | LCC LB1139.5.L35 D53 2019 (print) | DDC 372.6dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018032013

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Contents

Catherine E. Snow

About the Downloads and Videos

Purchasers of this book may download, print, and/or photocopy the rubrics summarizing information about specific literacy support programs for professional use. These materials are included with the print book and are also available at www.brookespublishing.com/downloads with (case sensitive) keycode 34ckDaD1k for both print and e-book buyers.

Purchasers of this book may access the videos of adultchild interactions for professional use. These materials are referred to within the print book and are also available at www.brookespublishing.com/downloads with (case sensitive) keycode 34ckDaD1k.

Videos include

Video 1, Tanya and Eliza

Video 2, Janna and Vera

Video 3, Liza and Vivian

About the Authors

David K. Dickinson, Ed.D., Associate Dean for Research and Strategic Initiatives and Margaret Cowan Chair of Education, Peabody College of Education, Vanderbilt University, PMB 818, 230 Appleton Place, Nashville, Tennessee 37203

David K. Dickinson received his doctorate from Harvard Universitys Graduate School of Education after teaching elementary school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, while earning his masters degree at Temple University. For more than 30 years, he has studied early language and literacy development among children from low-income backgrounds. Using observational and intervention research, he has sought to understand factors that foster short- and long-term development of language and reading comprehension and to improve the quality of support children receive. He has coauthored the widely used preschool curriculum Opening the World of Learning (OWL) (Pearson), coauthored three volumes of The Handbook of Early Literacy Research (Guilford Press), authored or coauthored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, and spoken to practitioner and research audiences around the world.

Ann B. Morse, M.Ed., Nashville, Tennessee 37215

Ann B. Morse earned her masters degree in education with a focus in early childhood from Lesley University. For more than 30 years, she has worked on behalf of young children from low-income backgrounds and their families. Through the Head Start National Training and Technical Assistance Network, she provided professional development to programs related to supporting children with disabilities and enhancing literacy skills. She coached pre-K teachers to enhance childrens language and literacy skills through intervention research projects at Vanderbilt University. She was a contributing author of the language and literacy-based curriculum Opening the World of Learning (OWL) (Pearson).

Foreword

David Dickinson and Ann Morse have made important contributions in this volume. First, they have rewritten the study of child development through the lens of language. They review familiar developmental domains (discussing attachment, executive function, socioemotional development, risk factors that imperil healthy development), making the case that language development is not just another in that list of domains but, rather, central to all of them: the site where differences in parenting show up most powerfully, the mechanism by which parents promote attachment, executive function, socioemotional development, and cognition, as well as a tool children can wield in their own regulation of attention, management of emotion, involvement in social relations, and ongoing acquisition of knowledge.