Written with warmth and humor?? Yardsticks offers clear descriptions of children's development. This comprehensive?? user-friendly reference helps teachers and administrators use knowledge of child development to shape classrooms and schools where all children can succeed.
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 third edition:
- A new?? brief overview of issues in the development of bilingualism and biliteracy among Latino/Hispanic children
- A new appendix on the "luster 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.