John Olive

Wry, fresh and funny, --NY Times; ...a series of deliriously comic lines, NY Journal-American. Some of the funniest and wittiest dialogue that has been heard in the local theater for a very long time...almost constantly filled with a flow of rapidly-paced

A Play

Killers

Tonight, don't read your child a story. Instead, dim the light, lie down, and create storytelling magic. Weave a spell that will enchant your child. . . Written by an award-winning playwright, Tell Me A Story In The Dark provides you with every tool you need to tell great and entertaining stories. In a day when parents want to spend more quality time with their children, Tell Me A Story In The Dark: Shows you how to prepare and tell a story. Communicates the enormous benefits—ending the bedtime battle of wills, building vocabulary, making room for effective parenting moments. Provides a treasure trove of stories that parents (and grandparents) can adapt for their children. Teaches you how to make up and tell your own stories. Anyone who loves children will love this book.

A Guide to Creating Magical Bedtime Stories for Young Children

Tell Me a Story in the Dark

Leslie P. Steffe

Children’s Fractional Knowledge elegantly tracks the construction of knowledge, both by children learning new methods of reasoning and by the researchers studying their methods. The book challenges the widely held belief that children’s whole number knowledge is a distraction from their learning of fractions by positing that their fractional learning involves reorganizing—not simply using or building upon—their whole number knowledge. This hypothesis is explained in detail using examples of actual grade-schoolers approaching problems in fractions including the schemes they construct to relate parts to a whole, to produce a fraction as a multiple of a unit part, to transform a fraction into a commensurate fraction, or to combine two fractions multiplicatively or additively. These case studies provide a singular journey into children’s mathematics experience, which often varies greatly from that of adults. Moreover, the authors’ descriptive terms reflect children’s quantitative operations, as opposed to adult mathematical phrases rooted in concepts that do not reflect—and which in the classroom may even suppress—youngsters’ learning experiences. Highlights of the coverage: Toward a formulation of a mathematics of living instead of being Operations that produce numerical counting schemes Case studies: children’s part-whole, partitive, iterative, and other fraction schemes Using the generalized number sequence to produce fraction schemes Redefining school mathematics This fresh perspective is of immediate importance to researchers in mathematics education. With the up-close lens onto mathematical development found in Children’s Fractional Knowledge, readers can work toward creating more effective methods for improving young learners’ quantitative reasoning skills.

Children's Fractional Knowledge

Tell Me A Story In The Dark celebrates the bedtime story. The book provides readers with all the tools they need to create and tell magical bedtime stories. It also contains a treasure trove of stories that readers can adapt and tell their children.

Papá ¿me cuentas un cuento? te brinda las herramientas necesarias para contar entretenidas historias y forjar un lazo padre-hijo para toda la vida. Esta noche, no le leas un cuento a tu hijo. En lugar de eso, atenúa la luz, siéntate a su lado y deja correr la imaginación. Crea un hechizo que lo atrapará... John Olive ha creado un libro con un enfoque diferente, capaz de motivar la crianza a través de la invención de cuentos para los hijos. Cualquier persona que ame a los niños les encantará este libro. En una sociedad donde cada vez es más difícil pasar tiempo de calidad con tus hijos, Papá ¿me cuentas un cuento? te brinda las herramientas necesarias para contar entretenidas historias y forjar un lazo padre-hijo para toda la vida. Aprenderás cómo: - Preparar y contar una historia. - Inventar tus propios cuentos. - Hacer que la rutina de irse a dormir no sea unapesadilla. - Incrementar el vocabulario de tu hijo. - Fomentar momentos de crianza eficaces.

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