The team that enhanced the understanding of different learning styles in "How Your Child Is Smart" extends its insight to homework, showing how to help families transform the nightly struggle with homework into a discovery of the unique gifts of each child.
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Markova and Powell, educators whose last team effort was Your Child Is Smart (1997), are proponents of the teaching movement that uses visual, audio and kinesthetic presentations to educate. Proposing that each child has his or her own personal operating system (POS) to receive, integrate and express learning, the authors suggest ways by which related classroom tactics can be applied to homework. Though the prose describing the glory of learning occasionally turns purple, when Markova and Powell get down to business they come up with innovative options for frustrated parents. For instance, kids who seem better attuned to learning through kinesthetic methods may benefit from practicing spelling words using magnetic letters, or from using marbles to learn math facts. Auditory options include making up a rap song about the respiratory system or creating sound effects to go with a story. Visual learners might create a poster or color code assignments to enhance organizational skills. Multisensory pathways, using all three channels, are also explored. The authors provide questions to help parents determine each child's best way, place and time to complete their homework. This primer is brimming with fun, unusual and practical ideas likely to benefit parents, students and educators.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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I really like this book and all those by this author. It was very helpful to help us with my daughter with A.D.D. in a loving way. There is more than one way to learn and not every child learns the same way, and being able to encourage and assist is much more valuable for the child than punishing and demeaning.
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Is there anyone who has spent time with very young children and not been in awe of the natural intelligence and resilient passion to learn that they bring into the world? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Is there anyone who has spent time with very young children and not been in awe of the natural intelligence and resilient passion to learn that they bring into the world? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
expanded attention, homework session Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
One-Way Street, Sharing What You've Learned, World War New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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books:
- The Courage to Teach by Parker J. Palmer in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Your Child Is Smart by Dawna Markova in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Roman Aromas (Smelly Old History, Scratch N Sniff Your Way Through the Past) by Mary Dobson on page 76
- How Your Child Is Smart: A Life-Changing Approach to Learning by Dawna Markova in Back Matter
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