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Raising lifelong learners : a parent's guide / Lucy Calkins ; with Lydia Bellino.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: [Cambridge, MA] : Da Capo Lifelong, [1998], ©1997.Description: xi, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0738200247
  • 9780738200248
Subject(s):
Contents:
Lifelong learning: an introduction -- Talk: the foundation of literacy -- Reading aloud: an apprenticeship in the literate life -- Early writing: growing young authors -- Early reading: first things first -- Playing well: building cities out of blocks and finding worlds in the backyard -- Helping children develop good work habits: hobbies, projects, chores, and the lessons they teach -- Reading and the middle childhood years -- Writing and the middle childhood years -- Finding your way through today's math -- Helping children develop the wide-awake curiosity of scientists -- Social studies: people, places, dates, and a habit of mind and heart -- A lesson without worlds -- APPENDICES / by Lydia Bellino: Introduction -- Appendix A: How to pick a preschool or kindergarten -- Appendix B: What you should know about your school's curriculum -- Appendix C: Reading: an essential part of your child's school day -- Appendix D: Testing and assessment in classrooms today -- Appendix E: Building a partnership with your child's teacher -- Appendix F: The importance of parent involvement.
Summary: Shows parents how to nurture their children's imagination, from the time they begin speaking to school age, through a free and creative approach to communication, chores, games, and other domestic activities.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Parent/Teacher Resource Collection-Children's 371.192 C155 Available 33111009338530
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Parent/Teacher Resource Collection-Children's 371.192 C155 Available 33111009312915
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Here the nationally acclaimed educator who transformed the way our children learn to read and write in school shows us how to nurture our children's imagination at home, from the earliest days of babytalk to the time when we see them off to school. Drawing upon her influential philosophy of active learning, as well as her personal experience as a parent, Calkins shows parents how to stimulate curiosity and spark creative thinking in children. Having an open and creative approach to conversations, chores, and games can matter just as much as reading, writing, and math. And even in traditional skills like reading and writing, we need to encourage our children to read for meaning and write for expression, rather than focus only on mechanics like phonics and spelling.By giving parents new and imaginative techniques for educating children, and by providing them with an insider's view of what goes on in the early grades, Raising Lifelong Learners creates the ultimate partnership in learning between home and school, parents and teachers.

Originally published: Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1997.

"First paperback printing"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-309) and index.

Shows parents how to nurture their children's imagination, from the time they begin speaking to school age, through a free and creative approach to communication, chores, games, and other domestic activities.

Lifelong learning: an introduction -- Talk: the foundation of literacy -- Reading aloud: an apprenticeship in the literate life -- Early writing: growing young authors -- Early reading: first things first -- Playing well: building cities out of blocks and finding worlds in the backyard -- Helping children develop good work habits: hobbies, projects, chores, and the lessons they teach -- Reading and the middle childhood years -- Writing and the middle childhood years -- Finding your way through today's math -- Helping children develop the wide-awake curiosity of scientists -- Social studies: people, places, dates, and a habit of mind and heart -- A lesson without worlds -- APPENDICES / by Lydia Bellino: Introduction -- Appendix A: How to pick a preschool or kindergarten -- Appendix B: What you should know about your school's curriculum -- Appendix C: Reading: an essential part of your child's school day -- Appendix D: Testing and assessment in classrooms today -- Appendix E: Building a partnership with your child's teacher -- Appendix F: The importance of parent involvement.

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