Engaging Literate MindsSarah Helmer Kathy Champeau Andrea Hartwig Peter Johnston Johnston ChampeauLabel: Stenhouse PublishersDescription: 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 MindsPeter 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 competencePowerful teaching practices from real classroomsEngaging ways to encourage inquiry and student agencySuggestions on how to use formative assessment in everyday teaching practicesHelpful research behind the classroom practices and children's developmentWays to help students inspire and support each otherBuilding 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.
The "Engaging Literate Minds" product would be an ideal fit for educators looking to inspire a love for reading in their students.
