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Neuman, Susan B.; Roskos, Kathy – Childhood Education, 1994
Notes that early childhood teachers need to encourage language and literacy development in a culturally responsive way, by acknowledging students' home culture, encouraging collaboration between students of different backgrounds, and setting the same standards of achievement for all students. Provides examples of culturally responsive learning…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Childrens Literature, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Awareness
Neuman, Susan B.; Copple, Carol; Bredekamp, Sue – 2000
The issues of how and when to teach young children to read and write are sufficiently important and controversial that two professional organizations International Reading Association (IRA) and the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), collaborated on a position statement, based on what is currently known from empirical…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Beginning Writing, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Emergent Literacy