Engaging Literate Minds (Developing Children's Social, Emotional, and Intellectual Lives, K-3)

Increasingly, educators are recognizing that for children to thrive intellectually they need socially and emotionally healthy classrooms. Conveniently, this is exactly what parents have always wanted for their children's classrooms that offer and grow positive relationships and behavior, emotional self-regulation, and a sense of well-being. Using the guiding principles from Peter Johnston's best-selling professional resources, Choice Words and Opening Minds,Peter and six colleagues began a journey to create just such classrooms'senvironments in which children meaningfully engage with each other through reading, writing, making, and discussing books. Together, they bring you Engaging Literate Minds: Developing Children's Social, Emotional, and Intellectual Lives, K-3 where you'll discover how these teachers struggled and succeeded in building such classrooms. Inside you'll find the following:

• Practical ways to develop a caring learning community and children's socio-emotional competence
• Powerful teaching practices from real classrooms
• Engaging ways to encourage inquiry and student agency
• Suggestions on how to use formative assessment in everyday teaching practices
• Helpful research behind the classroom practices and children's development
• Ways to help students inspire and support each other

Building a just, caring, literate society has never been more important than it is today. By embracing the ideas and teaching strategies Engaging Literate Minds, you can help children to become socially, emotionally, and intellectually healthy. Not only do these classroom practices develop the skills to achieve district benchmarks and beyond, they help develop children's humanity.

This book title, Engaging Literate Minds (Developing Children's Social, Emotional, and Intellectual Lives, K-3), ISBN: 9781625311627, by Peter Johnston, Kathy Champeau, Andrea Hartwig, Sarah Helmer, published by Taylor & Francis (February 6, 2020) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.

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