Engaging Literate Minds: Developing Children’s Social, Emotional, and Intellectual Lives, K–3

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Synopsis
Increasingly, educators are recognizing that for children to thrive intellectually they need socially and emotionally healthy classrooms. Conveniently, this is exactly what parents have always wanted for their children's classrooms that offer and grow positive relationships and behavior, emotional self-regulation, and a sense of well-being. Using the guiding principles from Peter Johnston's best-selling professional resources, Choice Words and Opening Minds,Peter and six colleagues began a journey to create just such classrooms'senvironments in which children meaningfully engage with each other through reading, writing, making, and discussing books. Together, they bring you Engaging Literate Minds: Developing Children's Social, Emotional, and Intellectual Lives, K-3 where you'll discover how these teachers struggled and succeeded in building such classrooms. Inside you'll find the following: Practical ways to develop a caring learning community and children's socio-emotional competencePowerful teaching practices from real classroomsEngaging ways to encourage inquiry and student agencySuggestions on how to use formative assessment in everyday teaching practicesHelpful research behind the classroom practices and children's developmentWays to help students inspire and support each otherBuilding a just, caring, literate society has never been more important than it is today. By embracing the ideas and teaching strategies Engaging Literate Minds, you can help children to become socially, emotionally, and intellectually healthy. Not only do these classroom practices develop the skills to achieve district benchmarks and beyond, they help develop children's humanity.
Copyright:
2020

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
344 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781003843221
Related ISBNs:
9781625311627, 9781032681078
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Peter Johnston, Kathy Champeau, Andrea Hartwig, Sarah Helmer, Merry Komar, Tara Krueger, and Laurie McCarthy
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Education, Language Arts
Grade Levels:
Kindergarten, First grade, Second grade, Third grade
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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