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Engage young children with this creative and strategic approach for building early literacy skills! This practical resource provides word lists, literature selections, and teaching strategies for building young learners vocabulary and comprehension skills Based on original research conducted by the author and Edward Fry, the lists are comprised of words used frequently by children in their writing, as well as additional words tenhance vocabulary and learning Each thematic chapter offers: Literacy integrations for reading and writing in the classroomWriting prompts tintegrate with journal activitiesRead-aloud suggestions from childrens literatureThink-alouds tenhance vocabularySuggestions for parent involvement