Facilitating Language Development:Effective teachers establish learning communities and provide opportunities for children to use language in authentic, integrated ways.

Integrating the Language Arts: The integration of the language arts involves coordination of activities that demonstrate natural connections among the various forms of language.

The Reading-Writing Connection:Reading and writing reinforce each other, and they require similar thinking skills.

Literature as a Means for Integrating Language:Literature can be the basis for learning to read and write and for developing positive attitudes toward further language learning. Use of literature provides children with purposes and opportunities for reading and writing.