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[2019]
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Guided play is a powerful tool educators can use to help preschoolers and kindergartners learn essential knowledge and skills in the context of playful situations. Apply the information, strategies, and ideas in this book to: Provide content-rich, joyful learning experiences; Balance child-guided and adult-guided play; Set up play environments with learning goals in mind; Offer suggestions and questions during play to prompt children's reflection...
3) Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners
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"Visible Thinking is a research-based approach to teaching thinking that develops students' thinking dispositions, while at the same time deepening their understanding of the topics they study. Rather than a set of fixed lessons, Visible Thinking is an extensive and adaptable collection of practices that include thinking routines and the documentation of student thinking. The routines are a central element of the practical, functional and accessible...
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2016
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Working toward the goal of making schools better places where more students succeed and satisfaction in learning and teaching prevail, Arthur L. Costa and Robert J. Garmston let you know about their own learning, and how new research and practice can support individuals and schools in reaching higher, more satisfying, and more holistic performance. Organinzed into four sections, this book clearly and effectively presents these concepts: the meanings...
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[2015]
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The founder and director of the Thirty Million Words Initiative, Professor Dana Suskind, explains why the most important--and astoundingly simple--thing you can do for your child's future success in life is to talk to him or her, reveals the recent science behind this truth, and outlines precisely how parents can best put it into practice.
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[2017]
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In this enduring classic, rich with deep, original insight into the nature of early learning, John Holt was the first to make clear that, for small children, "learning is as natural as breathing." In his delightful book he observes how children actually learn to talk, to read, to count, and to reason, and how, as adults, we can best encourage these natural abilities in our children.
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2023.
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Emotions are like a rainbow--there is a color for every one we feel. And when the confused feeling starts to take over the rainbow, it's time for The Pink Book! Simple activities, tips, and tricks help young readers whose confused pink shines brightest in the rainbows of their colorful minds. They can turn the pages from front to back or back to front. They can use every single page or open the book to just one random page. Soon, the other colors...
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[2015]
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Discover why and how schools must become places where thinking is valued, visible, and actively promoted.
As educators, parents, and citizens, we must settle for nothing less than environments that bring out the best in people, take learning to the next level, allow for great discoveries, and propel both the individual and the group forward into a lifetime of learning. This is something all teachers want and all students deserve. In Creating Cultures...
12) A mind at a time
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[2002]
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Renowned learning expert Dr. Mel Levine shows parents how they can observe and understand their children's minds.
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[2001]
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Offers a parent-friendly explanation of Howard Gardner's theory and of the ways that kids are word smart, picture smart, music smart, body smart, logic smart people smart, and self-smart. Provides ways to create an environment in which to cultivate these seven intelligences.
15) Se necesita
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2018
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The opportunity to learn vocabulary with amazing windows that children have to open. Riddles easy to discover thanks to the related explanatory text and the imagination. Four books that awaken in your child the spirit of observation and the ability to relate images and words.
La oportunidad de conocer vocabulario con sorprendentes ventanas que han de abrir los niños. Adivinanzas fáciles de descubrir con las relaciones gracias al texto explicativo...
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[2006]
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The How to teach your baby to read kit shows just how easy and pleasurable it is to teach a young child to read by providing skills that are basic to academic success. It explains how to begin and expand the reading program, how to make and organize necessary materials, and how to more fully develop your child's reading potential.
18) Shifting the balance: 6 ways to bring the science of reading into the upper elementary classroom
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[2024]
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"This book addresses a student-centered, middle ground point of view in the "reading wars" with an eye towards grades 3-5, that looks on these disagreements as opportunities for evolution instead of justifications for divisiveness. The writers introduce a handful of instructional shifts offered from an invitational stance to help readers consider research beyond a one size fits all mentality and confront their own biases and misunderstandings as they...
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[2016]
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Kersting explores the device-dependent world our children live in and its effects on their mental and emotional well-being. Research shows that too much time in the cyber world is re-wiring kid's brains, affecting their ability to flourish in the real world as anxiety, depression, and attention issues soar. Strategies to help reduce screen-time as well as meditative and mindfulness techniques may help our children reclaim their brains, and their lives,...
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[2023]
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"Bestselling author and neuroscientist offers simple, scientifically proven steps to help parents show their children how to overcome the unhealthy thinking habits that contribute to anxiety, depression, and intrusive thoughts, so they can replace them with positive thinking that leads to health, happiness, and success"--