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Once again, this comprehensive, easy-to-read book explores the way in which children learn language, the way language is taught to children, and how these two roads to language sometimes diverge–always giving equal treatment to first and second language learning.
Piper tracks language acquisition, from birth through the school years, presenting numerous cases studies of children's experiences as a means of illustrating stages of language development and the sequence of skills attainment. In addition, she thoroughly covers bilingualism, paying particular attention to the differences between second language learning at home and in a school setting.
For ESL and elementary school speech teachers.
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Not your average dry textbook.......2007-05-12
Language and Learning is a well-written college level reading textbook. Piper is not the average dry and boring academic author. The text is quite readable.
Awesome stuff...........2000-05-16
This bool really helped my with my class at the University of the Pacific for Dr. Longmire. While the class was really boring, the book helped me understand everything i needed to know for thethe final. Lots of terminology and lots of good examples. If you want to learn about language this is your guide to success.
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An inspiring and comprehensive guide to art education.
In this accessibly written guide for classroom and art teachers as well as parents, Nancy Beal shows how to release children's marvelous gifts of expression. Beal believes that children must first of all be comfortable with their materials. She focuses on six basic media: collage, drawing, painting, clay, printmaking, and construction. She gives practical consideration to all facets of a teacher's responsibility: how each material should be introduced; what supplies are best; how a classroom may be set up to support children's explorations; and how teachers may ask open-ed questions to stimulate personal and meaningful expression. Beal also discusses how to integrate art into social studies and how to make museum visits productive and fun. Each chapter includes a section specifically for parents on helping their children create art at home.
Beal has taught art to children for twenty-five years and is able to draw on a wealth of examples from her classroom. The Art of Teaching Art to Children is extensively illustrated with her students' art, visual proof of her gifts as an educator and art enthusiast.
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A good book.......2006-11-10
It is an inspiring book writen by a teacher who deeply respects children's ideas and knows how to stimulate their creativity. She focuses on six basic media (no new techniques).
A helpful book.......2006-11-04
Going into my first year as an art teacher after many years of not working in the education field, I was nerved up and needed some inspiration and reinforcement of theories, ideas, and concepts I had learned in school so many years before. The book was very readable and enjoyable. The concepts were clear and the anecdotes were very real. The students really came to life and her encouragement and demand for true quality showed in the examples in the book.
The only drawback to this book was that the author obviously came from a school district with much funding and she was lucky enough to have her own art room to present her ideas and use her very creative time savers. As an "art on the cart" teacher in a district with very tight funding, many things did not directly translate. However, the ideas in the book have inspired me to develop time savers and short cuts all my own.
I have found myself flipping though the book several times and rereading sections about materials I am not as familiar with. This was one book that I am very glad to have purchased.
Excellent!.......2005-09-21
Easy to read with a lot of helpful hints. Straight forward approach including developmental stages.
Great Book.......2005-08-10
This book made me think...the author has a wonderful way of viewing the art of teaching art. As a new art teacher, reading it has been very thought provoking and I am already applying some of her strategies in my class.
This Book Offers the Resource of Experience.......2002-07-24
This book stands out as a resource for art teachers because it is more than just ideas and directions for projects and crafts. The author shares her experiences and lessons-learned from 25 years of teaching art. As a newly hired art teacher for a private school, charged with creating my own curriculum, this book has become my jewel.
Ms. Beal presents a clearly focused method for teaching art to children with specific information about the developmental stages and abilities of elementary-aged children. She describes lessons and different types of media as they enable children to experience art. Her emphasis is on the experience, not the finished product. By controlling the environment through order and clearly defined limits, children can experience a process and master a technique without becoming confused or frustrated. She focuses on giving children the tools to make art a form of self-expression from the child outward, rather than from the adult in to the child. From her method of teaching, children understand basic concepts and learn that art has many layers -- art class is not just a bunch of arbitrary crafts or projects. This book has geat potential for adaptation to the Montessori classroom because of its hands-on approach and has children involved in every phase of art from the selection of materials to cleaning up.
I already have a fair amount of experience with art and with some teaching, but this book is really good for grounding -- it makes art and art lessons relevant, age-appropriate, logical, and positive. You get the sense that real learning and creativity happen in her classroom, rather than the chaotic, messy, nagging, direction-oriented approach that many of us envision in home or school art classes.
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In this exciting new book, you'll travel into the homes and schools of over 70 young children from diverse backgrounds and observe parent-child and teacher-child interactions. Through research gathered in the Home School Study of Language and Literacy Development, the authors share with you the relationship they've found between these critical, early interactions and children's kindergarten language and literacy skills.
You'll explore both the home and school environments of these children at ages 3, 4, and 5. You'll see how families talk to their young children during everyday activities like book reading, toy play, and mealtimes. You'll also examine children's conversations throughout the classroom day and consider how teachers strive to support children's development. In each chapter, you'll see how the data was collected,read actual transcripts of parent-child and teacher- child interactions,recognize how these interactions relate to later development,get suggestions for supporting children's language and literacy development, andlearn how these findings play out in the lives of four of the children in the study.
Find out how young children's home and classroom experiences during the preschool years are related to their kindergarten language and literacy skills, and discover the kinds of conversations that make a difference.
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The book shows educators how to use ideas from home art and play activities as the basis for a school art program that is meaningful to children.
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A must have for every parent and teacher!.......2006-12-16
An amazing account of childrens creative experiences and suggestions of how it can be adapted to the classroom. A wonderful guide to the understanding and supporting of childrens home art and how to encourage the creative ideas children bring to school.
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Writing activities for practicing handwriting skills. Manuscript. Grades 1-3.
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no more handwriting blues.......2007-09-09
after 2 years home-schooling my son using a traditional handwriting program, I was ready to pull out my hair! i decided to try d'nealian because it's what our local school district uses. this workbook is just right for my son. it's enough work for him to get used to forming his letters this way, but not so much work that he gets frustrated. i like that for each letter there are verbal directions given. because of the switch, my son's letter formation is a lot more consistent already and we've barely begun! since he wants to write all his letters the new way, i let him look at the alphabet on the back page for reference. for the first time, my son is beginning to enjoy handwriting!
Dnealian home school activities.......2000-08-05
This is the only way children should learn to print and write. It is absolutely outstanding and beats the old ball and stick routine to pieces. I used it with all four of my children (ages 23, 21, 19 & 15 now) when they were first learning to print. There is no confusion with "b" and "d" and the strokes are easy to master. Awesome!!
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Writing Because We Love to: Homeschoolers at Work
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Anyone Can Produce Plays with Kidsgives you absolute basics required to stage your own plays at home, in school, and in your community for parents and teachers who have little or no drama training.
Parts One through Seven teach the how-to basics of playmaking:
organizing a company
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Part Eight translates theory into action by presenting three plays in detail from top to bottom.
Making plays with kids is a simple family-centered activity, a potent learning tool for children, a proven method of helping children acquire vital social and communication skills -- and the absolute best way you'll ever find to feel like a kid again yourself!
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Dozens of rewarding, easy-to-do craft and art projects from all over the world.
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Art Teacher's review.......2000-04-04
I've done many of these projects with children, and they are both educational (the book gives some cultural and historical references on the projects) and a cut above some of the really simplistic projects found in a lot of books. I go back to it again and again! I'd highly recommend it.
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This "in a bag" book is full of activities that students carry back and forth between school and home. Scavenger hunts and hands-on experiments, along with follow-up classroom activities, promote real-life problem-solving. Handy response forms ensure parent involvement.
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Christian clip and copy art: For church, home and school (Teacher helper series)
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The Synagogue (Excavations at Dura-Europos, Final Report 8, Pt. 1.)
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Through beautiful illustrations, fantasy and historical exploration, Where God Dwells: A Child's History of the Synagogue is a chance to take your students to Jerusalem and Masada, Dura Europos and Beth Alpha and then back to your own synagogue!
Dr. Steven Fine & Leah Bierman Fine
Grades: 3-7 * Format: 56-page book * Subjects: Ancient Synagogues
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The Frescoes of the Dura Synagogue and Christian Art (Dumbarton Oaks Studies)
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