Using Humor to Maximize Learning The Links between Positive Emotions and Education

The purpose of this book is to affirm, sustain, and encourage educators in the practice of humor not only as a personal tool to optimize a healthy lifestyle, but to maximize the benefits of humor in education.

 

 

These benefits include current research-based data on the use of humor to nurture creativity, to increase the capacity for memory retention, to support an optimal learning environment and to build safe communities that reflect the relational trust necessary for collaborative learning. An environment of fun is an indicator of a culture of trust.

 

 

Each chapter of this book includes a study group format and powerful practice ideas for leaders. These tools can facilitate creative data analysis for educational leaders interested in understanding the relatively new field of positive psychology and how it can contribute to a joyful learning environment that promotes collaborative relationships.

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Understanding Phonics and the Teaching of Reading

As well as providing refreshing insights into how children encounter texts in the increasingly complex world of literacy, the book celebrates the complexity, pleasure and passion that are the foundations of becoming a successful reader. Each chapter explores in-depth the processes involved as children engage in reading, from their interactions with texts in the very earliest stages through to the primary phase.

 

 

Drawing on both research and theory, the book also shows how some contemporary understandings of reading are based on over simplistic and rationalised ideas about the reading process.

 

 

A unique feature of this book is that it combines academic perspectives with the insights of parents and practitioners. The participation of those most closely involved with children complements the lively debate and contributions from researchers, providing a rich and inclusive range of ideas.

 

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12 American Voices by Maurice Cogan Hauck - Instructors Manual

Instructor's manual to 12 American Voices: An Authentic Listening and Integrated-Skills Textbook.

 

 

This manual contains suggestions on how to most effectively use the broadcasts and lessons in this textbook. The authors have taught these stories to many students and in a wide variety of classrooms. In each case there were differences large and small in how the lessons were taught depending on the goals and orientations of the course and—even more—on the interests and responses of the students.

 

 

For that reason they would like to begin by emphasizing that their experience and advice are only that. You should accept only that which seems applicable to your own teaching situation.

 

 

The authors have organized this manual in the following way: Each chapter begins with a brief Introduction to the Broadcast. These notes include a synopsis of the story and comments on its content and major themes.

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Times Creative English for Primary Schools

CONTENTS : "•Frogs 4 Crosspatch Frogs 7 Antonyms (1) 8 Antonyms (2) 9 Dinosaurs 10 Extension - Compound Words 12 Synonyms (1) 13 People At Work 14 Alphabetical Order (1) 16 Homonyms (1) 17 Clowns 18 Plurals (1) 20 Plurals (2) 21 Plurals (3) 22 Sport 23 Rhyming 24 Word Croups - Word Families 26 Word Groups - Parents and Young 27 Extension - Sound and Motion 28 Space 29 Space Crosspatch 33 What am I? 34 Prefixes (1) 35 Computers 36 Suffixes (1) 37 Plurals (4) 38 Plurals (5) 39 School Rules 40 Extension - Sounds 42 Prefixes (2) 43 Extension - Colours 44 Collective Nouns 45 Extension-Analogies 46 Extension - Anagrams (1) 47 Quick Quiz 48 Trees 50 Synonyms (2) 52 Prefixes (3) 53 Prefixes (4) 53 Extension-Similes 55 Water 56 Alphabetical Order (2) 58 Homonyms (2) 59 Homonyms (3) 60 Suffixes (2) 61 Suffixes (3) 62 Compound Words (1) 63 Animals 64 Compound Words (2) 66 Word Croups - Occupations (1) 67 Insects 68 Base Words 70 Synonyms (3) 71 Minerals 72 Suffixes (4) 74 Suffixes (5) 75 Homonyms (4) 76 Word Groups • Occupations (2) 77 David And Goliath 78 Word Croups - Masculine And Feminine 80 Prefixes (5) 81 Prefixes (6) 82 Extension - Anagrams (2) 83 Extension - Building Words 84 Word Groups • What Is There? 85 Asia 86 Contractions (1) 88 Contractions (2) 89 Extension-Idioms (1) 90 Extension-Idioms (2) 91 Word Croups - Describing Words 92 Extension -Finish The Words 93

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Themes With a Difference 228 New Activities for Young Children

This new multi-cultural, anti-bias text offers a refreshing approach to combining science, math, social studies, music and art with whole language for children aged 3-6. Child-initiated, hands-on activities encourage children to explore which stimulates them to spontaneously use all parts of language -- speaking, listening, reading and writing.

 

 

Early childhood educators can use these whole language experiences to lay a foundation for children to build on when they later focus on separate parts of language growth.

-228 new activities

-offers multi-cultural, anti-bias representation

-each unit begins with an "Attention Getter" to stimulate interest

-clear, concise directions and complete materials lists make this book easy-to-use

-activities selected are from across the curriculum.

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The Write Start Sentences to Paragraphs with Professional and Student Readings 4th Edition

Clear, simple, and straightforward, this developmental writing book includes thorough coverage of the writing process, numerous opportunities for grammar practice, a variety of writing opportunities, and contemporary, interesting readings.

 

 

Unlike most texts for developing writers, The Write Start begins with sentence formation, moves to paragraph organization, and ends with one chapter on the full essay.

 

 

Although this is one suggestion for a course outline, the chapters are self-contained units allowing for flexibility of design, depending on the instructor’s own needs and that of the class. Within the text, references are made to other chapters and to The Writer’s Resources section when appropriate.

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The Write Start - A Guide to Nurturing Writing at Every Stage from Scribbling to Forming Letters and Writing Stories

You play an important role in nurturing your child's writing development. You are your child's first writing teacher, and their most important writing role model. From teaching your child how to hold a pencil and form the letters of the alphabet, to creating writing spaces and meaningful writing rituals at home, this book gives you all of the information and inspiration you need to raise a confident writer.

 

 

Fifty-two playful activities are presented as ways to invite your child to write. Each activity offers specific suggestions to meet the needs of Scribblers (pre-writers), Spellers (emerging writers), Storytellers (beginner writers), and Scholars (more experienced young writers)—providing the just-right combination of fun and functional skill development.

 

 

The Write Start is a treasure trove of irresistible ideas that will help you introduce your child to the wonderful world of writing, now, and for years to come.

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