Featuring contributions from a unique mix of authors--classroom teachers, teacher educators, and children's book authors--this volume explores the value of stories in promoting children's language and literacy learning. Major sections cover the most fundamental and critical foundations for language and literacy growth--including first language learning, multilingual learning, and literacy development--and then focus on the forms and functions of story from infants and toddlers to the upper elementary grades. Here's the Story is a practical text that offers the conceptual and theoretical background for promoting new ways of bringing narrative to the forefront of children's current language and literacy learning.

Book Features:

• Original examples of exemplary instruction from multilingual and multicultural settings.
• Practical suggestions and ideas for caregiving and teaching.
• Interviews with celebrated children's books authors Nina Crews and Elisa Kleven.