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OLDER CHILDREN (AGES 9-12 AND OLDER)
Consider who the child is--his or her personality traits and personal preferences.
Make your selection with the child in mind; choose an informational child book or a novel in an area of specific interest.
Publishers sometimes indicate on the cover of the child book or on a child book jacket the age level or grade level for which they think that child book is most suitable.
Don't h... Research on the benefits of joint parent-child book reding also underscores the importance of considering context (i.e., parent-child relationship) in which prescriptions for parenting are to be applied. There is strong evidence that parent-child reading is related to a number of child successes in learning to read (Bus, van IJzendoorn & Pellegrini, 1995).
While these findings lend support to the wisdom of attempts to encourage joint parent-child book reading in family literacy programs, they need to be qualified in a manner that considers the "condition" of the parent-child relationship.
Studies show that in parent-child dyads, where there is an insecure... THE SAFE CHILD BOOK: A Common Sense Approach to Protecting Children and Teaching Children To Protect Themselves, by Sherryll Kraizer, Ph.D. Fireside Books / A Simon & Schuster Trade Paperback Original, August 28, 1996
The daily headlines provide a constant reminder of the violence and abuse perpetrated against children. Parents try to find a balance between protecting their children and letting them grow up without fear and paranoia. Finding an appropriate way to protect children while nurturi... Mrs. Mubarak attends int'l child book festival in Switzerland next week
Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak will attend the international child book festival to be organised by the international council for child book in Basel, Switzerland next week.
Mrs. Mubarak, the Chairwoman of the Egyptian Council for Child Book, will give the inaugural speech of the international council's 28th session and attend celebrations of the council's 50th anniversary. The session will last for four days.
###... FOR ASSISTANCE IN CHOOSING A CHILD'S BOOK
There are many people right in your community who can help you choose the right child books for children--librarians, booksellers, and teachers. There are also several books published in recent years that can help you make good choices. A short, and by no means comprehensive, selection of recent titles to help adults choose child books for children includes:
CHILDREN'S FICTION SOURCEBOOK by Margaret Hobson and Jennifer Madden (Vermont, 1995, Schol... It's the most urgent and highly publicized issue facing America's family: how to teach our children to protect themselves in any situation.
Based on the author's successful education workshop, which has been in operation since 1969 and has educated more than 50,000 parents and children nationwide, The Safe Child Book gives parents effective and non threatening techniques for teaching children how to protect themselves without making them afraid.
Written by one of the few nationally rec... The Children's Book Council (CBC) is a nonprofit trade association whose membership consists of U.S. publishers and packagers of trade books for children and young adults, and producers of related literacy materials. The CBC promotes the use and enjoyment of children's trade books and related materials and disseminates information about trade book publishing; the Council is also the official sponsor of Young People's Poetry Week and Children's Book Week. The Council works with its m... |
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