Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom, Ages 4-14

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Northeast Foundation for Children, 2007 - Education - 216 pages

Written with warmth and humor, Yardsticks offers clear descriptions of children's development. This comprehensive, user-friendly reference helps teachers and administrators use knowledge of child development to shape classrooms and schools where all children can succeed.

For each age, this book includes:

Narrative description of developmental traitsCharts summarizing physical, social, language, and cognitive growth patternsSuggestions for curricular areas: reading, writing, mathematics, and thematic unitsFavorite books for different ages.

What's new in the third edition:

A new, brief overview of issues in the development of bilingualism and biliteracy among Latino/Hispanic childrenA new appendix on the "birthday cluster exercise" for applying the information in the book to working with a whole class of studentsAn updated list of recommended children's booksAn updated list of recommended resources for teachers and parents.

About the author (2007)

Chip Wood is principal of Sheffield Elementary School in Turners Falls, Massachusetts, and co-founder of Center for Responsive Schools.

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