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High/Scope Educational Research Foundation
Children's conflicts over toys, space, and friendship create many challenges for teachers and parents. This book presents a six-step mediation process adults can use to support young children at these tense and emotional times. It includes more than 50 actual stories of conflict experiences from preschools, nursery schools, Head Start centers, elementary schools, and homes. Through these stories and the accompanying photos of conflict resolution in action, readers can "see and hear" real children resolving disputes successfully, guided by adults using the six-step process. Using this book as a guide, teachers and parents will have the strategies in hand to make the most of these valuable learning opportunities, whether the children they are caring for are toddlers, preschoolers, or school-aged children. B. Evans
Looking for meaningful ways to integrate high-quality children's literature into your language arts curriculum? This delightfully illustrated book provides a host of exciting small-group workshops for children in kindergarten through second grade, planned around storybooks they love. Each workshop is geared to specific High/Scope elementary key experiences and includes a description of the activity, a materials list, instructions for teachers and students, follow-up activities, and modifications for children with special needs. The workshops focus on several classic, as well as new, children's books. Don't miss this opportunity to provide your students with fun-filled and exciting learning experiences in a small-group active learning environment. K. Morrison and T. Dittrich with J. Claridge
Math instruction a little humdrum? Looking for new ways to make number concepts more meaningful to students? Discover how to use high-quality children’s literature—a treasure-trove of math concepts—to plan exciting small-group workshops in mathematics for kindergarten through second grade. Each of the six sets of workshops in this book is built around storybooks children love and focuses on a specific aspect of numeracy: shapes, counting, seriation, addition, money, and measurement. Each set is designed for a specific grade level but is easily adapted to other ages. Also included is an introductory section that explains the High/Scope active learning small-group workshop process and provides tips on planning successful workshop experiences. Each workshop plan is geared to specific High/Scope key experiences in mathematics and other important content areas. A whole-group lesson at the beginning of each set of workshops introduces students to the books and activities in that section. The workshops provide exciting opportunities for children to use manipulatives that make number concepts more concrete, make predictions and test them out, graph and chart measurements and other information, make their own numeracy books, create two- and three-dimensional artwork utilizing math concepts, and engage in many other active learning experiences. Helpful student instruction cards enable students to independently carry out many of the activities. Fun as well as educational, the field-tested workshop ideas in this book demonstrate what an invaluable resource good children’s literature can be for enhancing students’ learning across content areas. Kathy Morrison, Tina Dittrich, & Jill Claridge
The activities in this book will keep your K–6 students jogging, hopping, swaying, rocking, marching, patting, making pathways, and moving in all kinds of ways as they learn. Classroom teachers, as well as specialty teachers in physical education, music, and recreation, will find this book to be a rich source of ideas for challenging and enjoyable movement experiences. The experiences are planned around key curriculum concepts in movement and music as well as in academic curriculum areas such as math and reading. And because these experiences develop students’ basic timing, language abilities, vocabulary, concentration, planning skills, and capabilities for cooperative decision making and leadership, teachers will see learning effects that stretch across the curriculum. An easy-to-follow plan is given for each activity, including — • Suggested level (adaptable for many age groups) • Key experiences in movement and music • Curriculum concepts • Materials needed, including suggested music selections when applicable • Steps for doing each part of the activity • Questions for extending children’s understanding • Extension ideas for creative variations. This lively text is enhanced by many illustrations and photos. The attached music CD contains recordings that may be used with many of the activities from this book. Phyllis S. Weikart and Elizabeth B. Carlton Booth: 2025
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You Can't Come to My Birthday Party! Conflict Resolution With Young Children
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