In this book, Lucy Calkins and Lydia Bellino detailed some ways on how to develop lifelong learners in our children. This book is highly recommended to all parents of babies to preschoolers. The authors, one being professor and speaker and the other a principal and reading specialist, highlights the essentials of literacy and the role of each parent in their child’s development and growth.
This book is a parent’s guide not only on the area of teaching reading and writing but also on awakening the creative mind and imagination of our kids, and understanding how these affects other subject matters including math.
Book’s Content:
Lifelong Learning: An Introduction
CHAPTER 1 Talk: The Foundation of Literacy
CHAPTER 2 Reading Aloud: An Apprenticeship in the Literate Life
CHAPTER 3 Early Writing: Growing Young Authors
CHAPTER 4 Early Reading: First Things First
CHAPTER 5 Playing Well: Building Cities Out of Blocks and Finding Worlds in the
Backyard
CHAPTER 6 Helping Children Develop Good Work Habits: Hobbies, Projects, Chores
and the Lessons They Teach
CHAPTER 7 Reading and the Middle Childhood Years
CHAPTER 8 Writing and the Middle Childhood Years
CHAPTER 9 Finding Our Way Through Today’s Math
CHAPTER 10 Helping Children Develop the Wide Awake Curiosity of Scientists
CHAPTER 11 Social Studies: People, Places, Dates and a Habit of Mind and Heart
CHAPTER 12 A Lesson Without Words
This book is a parent’s guide not only on the area of teaching reading and writing but also on awakening the creative mind and imagination of our kids, and understanding how these affects other subject matters including math.
Book’s Content:
Lifelong Learning: An Introduction
CHAPTER 1 Talk: The Foundation of Literacy
CHAPTER 2 Reading Aloud: An Apprenticeship in the Literate Life
CHAPTER 3 Early Writing: Growing Young Authors
CHAPTER 4 Early Reading: First Things First
CHAPTER 5 Playing Well: Building Cities Out of Blocks and Finding Worlds in the
Backyard
CHAPTER 6 Helping Children Develop Good Work Habits: Hobbies, Projects, Chores
and the Lessons They Teach
CHAPTER 7 Reading and the Middle Childhood Years
CHAPTER 8 Writing and the Middle Childhood Years
CHAPTER 9 Finding Our Way Through Today’s Math
CHAPTER 10 Helping Children Develop the Wide Awake Curiosity of Scientists
CHAPTER 11 Social Studies: People, Places, Dates and a Habit of Mind and Heart
CHAPTER 12 A Lesson Without Words