Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom Ages 4-14
Selected Book Details
- Paperback
- Edition: 3
- Author: Chip Wood
- Publisher: Northeast Foundation for Children
- Release Date: August 2007
- ISBN-10: 1892989190
- ISBN-13: 9781892989192
- List Price: $20.00
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryWritten with warmth and humor, Yardsticks offers clear descriptions of children's development. This comprehensive, user-friendly reference has been a favorite of parents and teachers for more than 10 years. For each age, this book includes: narrative description of developmental traits; charts summarizing physical, social, language, and cognitive growth patterns; suggestions for curricular areas: reading, writing, mathematics, and thematic units; favorite books for different ages. What's new in the 3rd edition: a brief overview of issues in the development of bilingualism and biliteracy among Latino/Hispanic children; an appendix on the birthday cluster exercise for applying the information in the book to working with a whole class of students; an updated list of recommended children s books; an updated list of recommended resources for teachers and parents. |
Customer Reviews
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Great Parent Resource
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I first read the material as an educator. I then read it again as a parent. I must say though, that from a parent's perspective, this book is a fantastic resource for parents to create a point of reference in order to understand their child's overall development. I believe that this book can be compared to a road map, that is, you can see your destination and make plans in order to make the road trip as prosperous as possible.Learn'Em Good Writing: Improve Your Child's Writing Skills: Simple and Effective Ways To Become Your Child's Writing Tutor At Home
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I purchased this book because I am working on my National Board Certification and it was recommended reading for the process. The book came quickly and I am satisified with the quality and the purchase.
Yardsticks Children in the Classroom Ages 4-14
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Very helpful
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Ordered it for my mother who is a fifth grade teacher, she said it was very helpful
great reference for children's attitudes
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There is intricate detail for each age 4-14 within this book for the child of a particular age, and then the general child's interests and disinterests at particular age. Of course age is just a number and kids could be at different stages. Exceptionally talented or disabled kids would not fall under these age ranges, or may be lacking or excelling in maturity. There is no book to solve all cases, but it is a handy reference. Chip Wood does not mention these facts in the 1997 version of this book well if at all. Also, near the end of the book on p. 167 "passage parties" could be defined better, especially for non-religious people reading the book as people who would have such parties would probably be affiliated with a religion in some way. His comment on p.170 says that children at 14 "can't live [the general school environment]" and that we have to be able to teach them how to "internalize the capacity for fidelity." To a certain point, students make their own choices in their behaviors and what they want to or can learn. Teachers should have the right attitude and aim for all these things, but this book is slightly written so that it sounds confident, maybe overconfident in such a way that it leaves the impression that teachers can easily handle these social issues, but yet potential concrete solutions are not offered for these age groups. Rather, it tells you a typical person's tendencies by age for core curriculum subjects in general, but it could use even more. It's a pretty good book if it had to be written very fast.
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