For beginning and seasoned speech-language pathologists, as well as others in regular and special education who work with students who demonstrate oral and written language problems, Goldsworthy (speech-language pathology, California State U.-Sacramento) offers a guide to excellence, a schema of good practice. She covers the strands of language and literacy, play, listening skills, the rationale for early oral-written language, how to link the strands of oral-written language, and oral narration outlines and language literacy activities. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)