Assistant Professor Early Childhood Education

Singing Your Way through Current Second Language Learning Research

A practical view/review of August & Shanahan (editors) (2006) Developing Literacy in Second-Language Learners: Report of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children & Youth.

First, a story: Choi, Yangsook (2001) The Name Jar. NY: Knopf.

The rest of the story - on the heels of the National Reading Panel Report (Dec 2000)

Poems, Songs, Nursery Rhymes

Five Big Ideas of Early Literacy Instruction.htm

http://www.cal.org/natl-lit-panel/

http://www.cal.org/natl-lit-panel/TESOL06.htm

Kamil (2003) http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/oela/summit2003/Presentations/relationship_between_first.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrastive_analysis

http://www.iteachilearn.com/cummins/bicscalp.html

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