Listen and Learn

by Cheri J. Meiners, Meredith Johnson (Illustrator)

Overview

Knowing how to listen is essential to learning, growing, and getting along with others. Simple words and inviting illustrations help children develop skills for listening, understand why it’s important to listen, and recognize the positive results of listening. Includes a note to teachers and parents, additional information for adults, and activities.

The Learning to Get Along® Series
The Learning to Get Along series helps children learn, understand, and practice basic social and emotional skills. Real-life situations, lots of diversity, and concrete examples make these read-aloud books appropriate for home and childcare settings, schools, and special education settings. Each book ends with a section of discussion questions, games, and activities adults can use to reinforce what children have learned. All titles are available in English-Spanish bilingual editions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781575421230
Publisher:	Free Spirit Publishing
Publication date:	03/15/2003
Series:	Learning to Get Along Series
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	40
Sales rank:	113,763
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.16(d)
Lexile:	AD450L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Cheri J. Meiners, M.Ed., has her master’s degree in elementary education and gifted education. A former first-grade teacher, she has taught education classes at Utah State University and has supervised student teachers.

Cheri and her husband, David, have six children and enjoy the lively company of their grandchildren. They live in St. George, Utah.

Editorial Reviews

A good choice for teachers seeking books that reinforce familiar classroom messages.

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Learning Magazine’s Teacher’s Choice Award Finalist

From the Publisher

An excellent means of educating children about a wide variety of social situations and expectations.

Mary Jane Weiss

K-Gr 1-Two books aimed directly at issues that arise in the classroom and on the playground, presenting the social skills needed to address them and ideas and activities for parents and teachers to reinforce them. The titles could not be more didactic in tone and spirit; the greeting-card illustrations are determinedly multicultural and multiabled, bluntly repeating the lessons at hand. Sample dialogue: "I think about what I hear. Thinking helps me learn and remember" (from Listen). "I'm learning to make good choices. I'm learning to think about others" (from Share). It's unlikely that this kind of iteration actually motivates children. These books may be of some use in the classroom, but they are of doubtful value in a general collection.-Dona Ratterree, New York City Public Schools Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

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