| Description |
xvii, 169 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
John Holt / by George Dennison -- 1. Reading and writing -- Reading and trust -- Thirty hours -- Discovering letters -- Exploring words -- Reading readiness -- Inventing the wheel -- Words in context -- Sensible phonics -- How not to learn to read -- How not to learn to write: with big bird -- Spelling -- Handwriting -- Citizen in the world of books -- 2. At home with numbers -- Counting -- Addition and subtraction -- A homemade adding machine -- Abstractions -- Multiplication -- Those easy tables -- Multiplying large number -- On "infinity" -- Bootleg math -- Family economics -- Solving problems -- Riding, hunting, and arithmetic -- 3. Young children as research scientists -- Puzzles -- Creating knowledge -- Building understanding -- Making our own connections -- Lessons in the field -- Putting meaning into the world -- 4. Loving music -- Another chance -- Starting early -- On practice -- Suzuki -- They've got all the exits blocked -- Feelings in music -- 5. What parents can do -- Grown-up voices -- Uninvited teaching -- The power of example -- Teaching as a natural science -- Whose right hand? -- Correcting mistakes -- Praise junkies -- Unwanted help -- 6. The nature of learning -- Three misleading metaphors -- Learning is making sense of things -- Living is learning -- Every waking hour |
| Summary |
Shows how children begin to learn and to explore their world without being taught |
| Notes |
"A Merloyd Lawrence book." |
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Includes index |
| Subject |
Early childhood education.
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Education -- Parent participation.
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Learning.
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| LC no. |
89035038 |
| ISBN |
020112095X |
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0201550911 (paperback) |
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