Learning Through Play: Curriculum and Activities for the Inclusive Classroom

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Field-tested strategies for developing language-based curriculum for pre-school children, with special emphasis on adapatations for children with handicaps in the mainstream classroom.

Baby Sing and Sign: Communicate Early with Your Baby: Learning Signs the Fun Way Through Music and Play

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Exciting
Fantastic book - with a great music CD
Perfect for the classroom and at home!
Baby Signs are Great!
Love Baby Sing and Sign!

Baby Sing and Sign: Communicate Early with Your Baby: Learning Signs the Fun Way Through Music and Play
Anne Meeker-Miller
Manufacturer: Marlowe & Company
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1569242542

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Not only does learning to sign help babies ask for what they need, but music and repetition are also among the best ways to build language skills. Now it’s easy and enjoyable to teach signs during your child’s daily routines. Developed as a popular workshop series by an award-winning music therapist, Baby Sing and Sign is the original book-and-CD guide to feature upbeat songs for learning basic words and American Sign Language, at home and on-the-go.

Baby Sing and Sign includes:
• A delightful 13-song music CD featuring “baby-friendly” tunes
• Music and lyrics for more than 35 key words and signs
• 100 black and white instructional adult and child photographs throughout
• Signing games and activities for the whole family

With creative songs and engaging playtime activities designed to appeal to young and old alike, Baby Sing and Sign is an ideal bonding experience for anyone involved in the first years of a child’s life.

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Exciting.......2007-07-05

I am very excited about this book as I am a music teacher always looking for new things. Although I haven't yet incorporated this in my classes I cannot wait to start as the ideas in this book has given me renewed enthusiasm and I feel energised again.

Fantastic book - with a great music CD .......2007-03-05

This book and the music CD is a staple at our house. My daughter has loved all the music since she was under 1, and now she is 2 and still asks to listen to it. My daughter started signing at 7 months and knew more than 25 signs at a year old.... and I owe it all to the Sing and Sign program. It is fantastic! You can't go wrong with this book... especially since it also has a great music CD to listen to anytime.

Perfect for the classroom and at home!.......2007-01-09

I am a music therapist in Kansas City and also a mom to a 3 year old and 1 year old. This book gets as much use in the classroom as it does at home!

I teach special needs children ages 3-12 and I have used this book and the accompanying recording in all my classes. Several teachers have purchased the book themselves! My own children love the songs and and the signs. I get frequent requests at school and at home for the Baby Sing and Sign!

Baby Signs are Great!.......2007-01-07

I was lucky enough to take this author's class with my son in KC. After a few months of signing to him, he began signing nonstop around age 11 months. It helped immensely to reduce his frustration (and mine!) in communicating his needs and wants. He learned new signs quickly and his vocabulary/recognition of new objects grew immensely in the months to follow. Now that he is 2, his verbal skills are highly advanced (he speaks very clearly and can compose complex sentences), and I firmly believe this is due to the strong language base he started with the signing programs.

The songs and games in this book are still some of his favorites! Glad to see this great resource is available to parents everywhere! Thanks Anne!

Love Baby Sing and Sign!.......2007-01-07

This book and cd are wonderful! The cd has so many good songs. Not only is the music fun, but the book has great age-appropriate language activites to go along with the songs. (As a former teacher, I loved that reinforcement!) Our daughter especially liked the homemade picture books we made to reinforce the signs. It was so awesome to be able to communicate with our daughter before she could talk. She is almost three now and even though we don't need to sign anymore, she'll start signing when she hears the songs. I highly recommend this book and cdl!

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Water (Learning Through Play)
Avril Harpley , and Ann Roberts
Manufacturer: Scholastic
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Great book!

Literacy Through Play
Gretchen Owocki
Manufacturer: Heinemann
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ASIN: 0325001278

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Gretchen Owocki lets other teachers in on one of the best-kept secrets of early childhood education: play is a virtual goldmine for facilitating literacy learning. When children play in a purposefully designed, literacy-rich environment, teachers can discover and capitalize on some truly important, highly teachable moments.

Literacy Through Play is a resource for preschool and primary teachers who are looking for proven methods for preparing young children to become confident and flexible readers and writers. Owocki begins the book by establishing the theoretical rationale for the importance of play in literacy development, then outlines what teachers can do to set up a developmentally appropriate environment. She takes us inside two classrooms that use play in smart ways, offering proven ideas for:

teaching literacy through play
assessing children's literacy knowledge as they play
implementing developmentally appropriate practices
collaborating with families.

If the current political firestorm over reading, phonics, and spelling has caused you to question whether children can develop the foundation for conventional reading, writing, and spelling in a developmentally appropriate classroom, this book will assuage your concerns. If the "back to basics" movement has led you to disbelieve these classrooms are teaching the "basics," this book will not only confirm that they are, it will also give you useable ideas for teaching them in developmentally appropriate ways.

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Great book!.......2005-09-29

I was impressed with how fast I received this book and it will be useful to me in my grad class at SUNY Albany in NY.

Learning Through Play: Science (Learning Through Play)

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Learning Through Play: Science (Learning Through Play)
Susan Bromberg Kleinsinger
Manufacturer: Scholastic Prof Book Div
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0590491148

Learning Through Play: Music and Movement

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nice, but preschoolers can do more than this

Learning Through Play: Music and Movement
Ellen Booth Church
Manufacturer: Scholastic
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0590492497

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nice, but preschoolers can do more than this.......2006-06-22

I like the suggestions for child-initiated songs (page 11), child-initiated rhythms (page 12), taking advantage of teachable moments (page 13), allowing children to choose songs (page 15), and taking cues from the children (page 20).

But with only a little musical training, a preschool teacher can do more for the children than is suggested in the activity plans. When I was a small child, I wondered what those symbols in the songbook meant, and I was frustrated because no one would tell me.

I don't want any preschoolers in my care to suffer a similar frustration. Consequently, my students have played simple songs on the xylophone and practiced reading simple rhythms.

And if they felt any undue pressure, they certainly didn't show it. Rather, they have thrown their hands up in the air and said "Me! Me! Me!" just as they have for any other age-appropriate activity. If you are imagining an adult dragging a child out of bed in the middle of the night, forcing him to practice the piano, and boxing his ears whenever he made a mistake, you are thinking of Beethoven's father, not me.

Learning Games: Exploring the Senses Through Play

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Learning Games: Exploring the Senses Through Play
Jackie Silberg
Manufacturer: Gryphon House
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0876590075

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How do children learn about the world around them? They touch, taste, see, smell and hear it, of course! With over 200 activities, Learning Games will delight children as they expand their learning by engaging all of their senses. The chapters are organized by each of the five senses, with a bonus chapter of multi-sensory activities. The games and activities are designed to help children identify and use their senses?essential tools for understanding the world. Games Include: Partner Listening Paper Plate Shakers I?ve Got a Rhythm Dolphin Talk Listening to Paper The Binocular Game Color My World Glowing Mobile Walking Through Africa Magnify Your Life No Hands Fingerpaint with Textures Nose, Nose Smelly Walk Tongue Bumps Sweet or Sour Tasting in Space Let?s Taste Red Taste Picture Book Body Part Senses Senses for the Hand

Good Scripts, Bad Scripts: Learning the Craft of Screenwriting Through 25 of the Best and Worst Films in Hi story

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If you've read Hauge, McKee, etc... this is the next step...
Enjoyable Read, Lots to Think About
Populist Fare
Brilliant Script Analysis
like having/overhearing a conversation about films...

Good Scripts, Bad Scripts: Learning the Craft of Screenwriting Through 25 of the Best and Worst Films in Hi story
Tom Pope
Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0609801198
Release Date: 1998-04-07

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In this unique volume, respected screenwriter Thomas Pope offers an innovative and practical approach to teaching the craft of screenplay writing, in the process providing an engaging, behind-the-scenes look at the way the film industry really works. Each chapter deals with a different component of the art of screenwriting, from character development, to the nurturing of subplots, to the fundamentals of good dialogue, illustrating everything through the virtues or mistakes of a particular film. The book encompasses the best and worst of films throughout the years, including Citizen Kane, Pulp Fiction, Chinatown, Singing in the Rain, Bonfire of the Vanities, and many others. With its trenchant analysis and keen insight into the reasons films succeed or fail, Good Scripts, Bad Scripts is not only an invaluable guide for potential screenwriters, but a rich resource for any student interested in film and film history.

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If you've read Hauge, McKee, etc... this is the next step..........2007-07-13

There are a limited number of screenwriting books for near-professionals, and this is one of them. I've read all the best, and this one rates among them. Don't read it front to back, just read the sections of the movies you know. It also has an incredible analysis of "Pulp Fiction."

Enjoyable Read, Lots to Think About.......2006-04-21

Mr. Pope has done in book form what I and countless other aspiring screenwriters do in our heads: analyze movies to figure out what did and didn't work. For the most part, I thoroughly agree with the author's analyses, but let's face it, opinions are like, well, you know, and his conclusions may be different than your own. The important thing is his logic is undeniable and thought-provoking. I wish he'd come out with an updated version with 25 new movies and analyses.

Populist Fare.......2005-02-22

If you're an aspiring screenwriter looking to inspire some form of logic to your budding script, pick up a copy of Thomas Pope's "Good Scripts, Bad Scripts". Mr. Pope's critiques and breaking down of popular films in various genres are so meticulous and well studied that you will never look at films such as Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction the same way again.

I'm curious, though. How would Mr. Pope have judged more complex fare like David Lynch's "Eraserhead," or formalist exercises such as Gus Van Sant's "Elephant," or surreal genres such as Luis Buñuel's "Un Chien Andalou," or films within a film such as Jim Jarmusch's "Coffee and Cigarettes," or structureless essays like practically anything by Jean-Luc Godard?

Looking through Pope's 25 selections, there is not one avant-garde representation. The films may have been avant-garde in the way they were conceived ("Singing' in the Rain" being a fine example) but the end products are, by and large, mainstream entertainment.

It's ironic that Thomas Pope's best point in his book was in the preface: "There are no rules. In fact, that may be the single most important idea to come from this entire book." I agree 100%.

That said, I would still recommend "Good Scripts, Bad Scripts" even to those who are stubbornly resistant to traditional narrative structure, because you can choose to adopt, challenge or disregard most of the formulas and conventions that are laid out in his thoughtful book. Either way, you can't go wrong.

By the way, I disagree with Mr. Pope that "Singing' in the Rain" is the finest musical ever made. I believe that honour belongs to "West Side Story."

Brilliant Script Analysis.......2004-07-03

The authors really know their stuff in this well-written and very informative book. (Those reviewers who didn't find what they were looking for -- or felt the book didn't live up to its promise -- are clearly oblivious to what works and what doesn't work in film.)I learned something new on practically every page. I wish they had analyzed twice as many films, and I'd buy a sequel the minute it came out.

My only quibble is that there was no comparison of the script as written with the actual film. Scripts change between the time they're bought and when the final production edit is made. It would be interesting to know which bits were from the original script and which bits were added or changed on the fly: practical considerations during filming might have meant a damaging change to the script during filming.

Or maybe that's another book, entirely.

like having/overhearing a conversation about films..........2003-04-15

This is not a 'how-to' book, more an interesting (IMHO) setof facts and opinions about a couple of dozen films in particular.

In some ways, to me it's like eavesdropping on a couple of friends having a film-related conversation one evening. Sure, it's a little one-sided, but for the most part I agreed with the basic points for each script.

The neat thing (too) I think is that any one of us would have seen several (if not all) of these films, so talking about structure and character-development won't be an academic exercise... you'll know exactly what they're talking about (and can agree, disagree...)

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Children are natural learners-teach them with respect.......2003-09-11

I've been a kindergarten teacher for thirteen years. I pride myself on teaching with research-based methods which, above all, honor the developmental levels of children and their amazing ability to construct knowledge through play. I believe a teacher's job is to facilitate this natural learning through carefully structured, inviting exploratory play experiences. This book was one of the most influential when I was studying to be a teacher...in fact, I still refer to it occasionally and lend it to new teachers. It is based on the idea that all people need personal empowerment, and that with it, conflicts and the need to control others diminish (children and adults alike). It also suggests that the creative force minimizes the destructive one, and offers many practical ways, across the curriculum and including classroom management, to teach with these concepts in mind. It deals with concerns such as, "Won't it be too noisy?" and "How will I cover the curriculum?" It utilizes the research of Dewey and Piaget and for each activity, lists Concepts, Learning Goals, Thinking Operations and Materials. There are suggestions for helping children to reflect on their observations and for challenging their thinking. We are encouraged to remember that children who cultivate the art of play are likely to develop self-initiating behaviors, capacity for risk-taking, and inventiveness which will serve them all their lives. A teacher is more than someone who follows a lesson plan. Learn the art of teaching with this fabulous book!

Ideas for instructional approach.......2001-06-08

Now in an revised, updated, and expanded second edition, Serious Players In The Primary Classroom: Empowering Children Through Active Learning Experiences offers insight into the Selma Wassermann (Professor Emerita in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada) ideas for instructional approach: "Play-Debrief-Replay". This is a method for structuring curriculum experiences so as to promote children's active learning in cooperative groups and fostering independent thinking. A theoretical framework for implementing teaching for thinking in primary classrooms is provided, along with updated references and a new chapter on moral dilemmas. Serious Players In The Primary Classroom is an impressive, "user friendly" contribution to primary classroom curriculum development and teaching strategies.

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