Language Development

Children who have opportunity to talk, listen to stories and express their own ideas, develop larger vocabularies and understandings of the world.  These children are more successful readers, when reading becomes 'how you learn.'

Language Development

Language Acquisition - Early Literacy http://www.hh-pub.com/excerpts/CecilCh03ppt2ed_files/frame.htm
Signing for Infants and toddlers:  http://www.sign2me.com/science.htm
Value of Baby talk http://www.expressnews.ualberta.ca/ExpressNews/articles/printer.cfm?p_ID=5546
"The Early Catastrophe: The 30 Million Word Gap by Age 3" http://www.scfirststeps.org/docs/The%20Early%20Catastrophe.pdf
Fostering Comprehension skills in Preschoolers http://www.ciera.org/library/presos/2001/2001CSI/pvandenbroek/01csivdb.pdf
Relation of Child Care to Cognitive and Language Development http://mbb.harvard.edu/forumseries/cognitive_paper.html  research
Focus on Voabulary http://www.prel.org/products/re_/ES0419.htm
Wealth of Words http://www.awealthofwords.com/resources.html
Word Recognition in the Reading Process: Synthesis of Research on Beginning Reading
    http://idea.uoregon.edu:16080/~ncite/documents/techrep/tech15.html
Word recognition skills: http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/res/teach/rec.html
Word # in homes http://www.ed.gov/inits/americareads/families_talk.html
 

Word LISTS:
Dolch's List of Basic Sight Words http://www.literacyconnections.com/Dolch1.html
Fry’s 300 Instant Sight words http://www.usu.edu/teachall/text/reading/Frylist.pdf
Vocabulary Lists by age groups http://aac.unl.edu/VLN1.html

ESL
Spanish poem - C.I.R.C.L.E. http://ped1.med.uth.tmc.edu/circle/SpanishTransiciones.doc
Second Language Learning – Patton Tabor http://www.gse.harvard.edu/~pild/NABE2002.pdf
Books in Spanish/French and English on line: http://www.readinga-z.com/newfiles/preview.html
Poems in Spanish:
   http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/projects/ninos/songsrhymes.html#chocolate
   http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/2867/56.htm
   http://www.hevanet.com/dshivers/juegos/juegos.html
ESL links http://members.tripod.com/~ESL4Kids/links.html
Examining multicultural books http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v3n2/mendoza.html
Flash Cards download -  http://www.englishraven.com/flashcardsactions.html
Head Start -  English Language Learners: http://www.headstartinfo.org/pdf/English_language.pdf
Language Planning http://www.ecdgroup.com/download/cc109ali.pdf
NAEYC Position Statement http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/miscpubs/naeyc/position.htm
Second language learning http://www.englishraven.com/TEYL_langacqu.html