This premier volume in TC Presss Practitioner Bookshelf series offers valuable information for leaders in preschool settings and pre-kindergarten classrooms. A handy reference, it covers key aspects of literacy, learning, and teaching, including child development, standards, curriculum planning assessment and accountability, professional development, and home-school connections.

Dorothy S. Strickland is the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Professor of Education at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and a distinguished fellow at the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers. Her books include Bridging the Literacy Achievement Gap, The Administration and Supervision of Reading Programs, Third Edition, and Beginning Reading and Writing. Shannon Riley-Ayers is an Assistant Research Professor at the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers.