Learning to Read and Write in the Multilingual Family

Drawing on the experiences of parents and interdisciplinary research in multilingual literacy development, Wang (education, Pace U.) presents a guide for parents who wish to raise multilingual children that demonstrates the reading and writing learning process from infancy to adolescence. For each developmental stage, she details typical learning characteristics, the language literacy focus at home, target skills, strategies for facilitating development, selecting materials and conducting activities, moving beyond reading and writing and incorporating everyday activities, and assessing progress. She does not address children with learning disabilities. Distributed in the US by UTP Distribution. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Drawing on interdisciplinary research, as well as the experiences of parents of multilingual children, this book walks parents through the multilingual reading and writing process from infancy to adolescence. It identifies essential skills at each developmental stage and proposes effective strategies that facilitate multiliteracy, in particular, heritage-language literacy development in the home environment.