Merging Numeracy with Literacy Practices for Equity in Multilingual Early Year Settings

Robyn Jorgensen author Mellony Graven author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Springer Verlag, Singapore

Published:3rd Jan '23

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Merging Numeracy with Literacy Practices for Equity in Multilingual Early Year Settings cover

This book draws on both in and out of school literacy practices with teachers and families to enhance the numeracy of early learners. It provides highly illustrative exemplars, targeted for learners up to approximately eight years of age whose home language differs from the language of instruction. It identifies the challenges faced by these learners and their families, and shares ways of building both literacy and numeracy skills for some of the vulnerable learners nationally and internationally.
The book shares the outcomes and strategies for teaching mathematics to early years learners and highlights the importance of literacy practices for learners for whom the language of instruction is different from their home language. Readers will gain a practical sense of how to create contexts, classrooms and practices to scaffold these learners to build robust understandings of mathematics.

“This book may be recommended most for educators, including teachers and administrators, but also researchers interested in numeracy and literacy for young learners. … It is here that chapters are rich with specific examples, resources, pictures, and other invaluable resources that may help educators better support their multicultural and multilingual students in a variety of settings. Researchers will find similar value in these concrete examples … .” (Cristina Runnalls, MAA Reviews, June 18, 2023)

ISBN: 9789811677694

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240 pages

1st ed. 2021