Beginning Literacy with Language: Young Children Learning at Home and School

Beginning Literacy with Language: Young Children Learning at Home and School edited by David K. Dickinson and Patton O. Tabors Baltimore, MD, Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 2001, 409 pp, $29.95 (softcover). Beginning Literacy with Language describes the methods and results of the Home-School Study of Language and Literacy. The study, which began in 1987, is the product of a collaborative effort involving researchers and educators at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Tufts University, Clark University, and the Education Development Center in Newton, Massachusetts. The primary interest of the investigators is the relationship between extended discourse during the preschool period and later language and…