Contents -- Introduction -- Who Are the Children? -- Preliminary Information -- Where Do They Come from? -- Routines and Procedures at Day Care Centers and Schools -- Adjusting Your Classroom -- How Children Acquire and Use Language -- Learning the First Language -- Learning a Second language -- Principles and Their Application -- The Role of Language in Learning -- How Concepts Develop -- Early Literacy -- Expanding and Extending English -- Learning Centers -- Language and Literature as a Way of Knowing -- Narrative and Story in Language Learning -- At Home -- At School -- Across Cultures -- Building Bridges -- Building Bridges to the Mainstream -- Building Bridges to the Home -- Building Bridges to the Community -- Building Bridges to Other Teachers -- Building Bridges to Tomorrow -- Appendix A-Language -- Language-A System of Systems -- Resources -- Community Resources -- Children's Books -- References -- Journals.