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In the first six years of life, children are learning to listen, speak, read and write. Much of this learning occurs informally, through everyday interactions between children, and between children and adults. In fact, it is almost impossible to overstate the role of family, especially parents and grandparents, in nurturing, supporting and influencing young children?s language and literacy development.

Live, Love and Learn: How young children learn to speak, read and write through everyday life with you provides an intriguing and highly accessible guide to how young children learn and how you can support their learning. Early childhood academic, mother and grandmother, Laurie Makin, explains the principles of observation and engagement, to follow and extend children?s own interests, building their understanding, communication skills and self-confidence.

Real world scenarios, sample dialogue, and practical activities all highlight the critical importance of the home environment in enhancing children?s capacity to learn. This unique family resource is designed to:

• provide an overview of literacy learning in the infant and toddler years, the preschool years, and the early school years;
• identify key milestones and indicators for concern at each level;
• discuss the vital impact of technology on young children?s learning; and
• demonstrate how you can create opportunities for language and literacy learning to be integrated into everyday life without ?hot housing? or pressuring children.

Recognising the place of child care, early learning centres and early years schooling in young children?s lives, suggestions are also provided for communication between families and staff, at specific intervals throughout the book.

About the author

Laurie Makin, TL, BA, MA, GradDipEdSt (MultEd), PhD, has had extensive experience as an early childhood educator. A widely-published author in the areas of early language and literacy learning, bilingual education and multicultural education, Laurie has also contributed to a range of teaching resources in these areas. Her publications include How to develop children?s early literacy (Sage, 2004) and Literacies in Childhood (Elsevier, 2007, 2nd edn). Her research has focused on adult-child interactions in early childhood settings. Laurie worked extensively with families in the program, ?Support at Home for Early Language and LiteracieS (SHELLS)? (Makin & Spedding, 2001-2008). Prior to retirement in 2007, she was Founding Director of the Children and Education Research Centre at the University of Newcastle, and a Visiting Scholar in early childhood at the Hong Kong Institute of Education.

?I don?t know of any other books of such calibre that are written for parents and grandparents in such a respectful and accessible way.?
Associate Professor Andrea Nolan PhD, School of Education, Victoria University

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