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Raising Lifelong Learners: A Parent's Guide
Here the nationally acclaimed educator who transformed the way our children learn to read and write in school shows us how to nurture our children’s imagination at home, from the earliest days of babytalk to the time when we see them off to school. Drawing upon her influential philosophy of active learning, as well as her personal experience as a parent, Calkins shows pare...more
Paperback, 336 pages
Published
August 21st 1998
by Da Capo Press
(first published September 7th 1997)
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I have really enjoyed this book. I skimmed some parts that weren't applicable to the ages of my two boys, but MAN the stuff that WAS applicable to them was great! I have really struggled to get Kort "into" reading, and by following some of her simple suggestions, we are having quite the turn around in our home!
Some of her suggestions were:
*Put books out in places where kids will run into them. {This one has helped Kort, but HOOKED Tennyson. He brings books to me all day long now and we read them...more
Some of her suggestions were:
*Put books out in places where kids will run into them. {This one has helped Kort, but HOOKED Tennyson. He brings books to me all day long now and we read them...more
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This book was helpful and honest in content and conversational in tone. Calkins shares some of her own parenting experiences as examples of how to cultivate--or accidentally discourage--a love of learning in your children. She begins with early childhood and progresses to the middle elementary years. While she dwells most on reading and writing--which makes sense, since she is a literacy expert--she also discusses developing a love of such topics as science, social studies, and math. I found her...more
This book was interesting to me both as a teacher, and as a parent-to-be. Lucy Calkins' ideas on teaching reading and writing are well-known and respected in the field of literacy education. I refer to her books on reading and writing workshops frequently in my teaching. This particular book focused on how parents can raise children who love to learn in all subject areas. I was thrilled to hear her explaining that the key to raising lifelong learners is to simply let children become artists, sci...more
I LOVED this book. A treasure-chest of wonderful practical and tangible ways in which you can encourage your children to become lifelong learners. What I really liked is that the author gives very specific examples on what parents can say to facilitate the learning process. For example, intellectually I know that block play is also a learning experience - but the author actually gives examples of questions a parent might ask during block play that would take the learning experience to another l...more
This book was a wow for me. Really great, practical strategies (even the words she uses with her 2 sons and students) about how to inspire/instill in children an approach to life that includes thoughtfulness, inquisitiveness, passion, estimating, reasoning, confidence, creativity, resourcefulness, ingenuity, etc.
I've heard it said that there are 2 different camps of thought on education--in one camp it is believed that we are buckets to be filled with info. In the other camp we are intellectual...more
I've heard it said that there are 2 different camps of thought on education--in one camp it is believed that we are buckets to be filled with info. In the other camp we are intellectual...more
This book was okay. Most of the strategies pointed out by Calkins are obvious strategies that parents with common sense should be applying to their child's reading skills. I didn't like that most of her arguments were based on her own experience with her sons; I was expecting a more broad perspectives in terms of efficacy of her strategies among a number of other parents, and not just her experience. Calkins failed to offer strategies to help children learn to read by parents who do not like to...more
This is one I want to read again. The ideas really helped me when it came time to do Reflections... asking questions and encouraging my children in writing. Ella's poem won the Grand prize in K-2 literature (she's in Kindergarten). It will be a treasure for me to keep forever! So I'm very thankful for the inspiration that came from this book.
FYI... here are Ella's poems (Beauty being the grand prize winner):
Beauty
Beauty is grass. If you water it, it grows. I like grass because I can play and ski...more
FYI... here are Ella's poems (Beauty being the grand prize winner):
Beauty
Beauty is grass. If you water it, it grows. I like grass because I can play and ski...more
This book mirrors nearly perfectly my sentiments about raising children. Some highlights:
p. 9 Conversation and sharing of stories are the foundational development of literacy. No more of this "children are to be seen and not heard" stuff.
p. 14 Shari Lewis’s book Awakening Your Child’s Natural Genius has a foreward that says youngsters who got the highest SAT scores all regularly had dinner with their parents. As Steven D. Levitt would ask, is this a cause of the high SAT scores or merely a refle...more
It is my humble opinion, that instead of watching that horrible movie about shaken baby syndrome after you give birth, the hospital should hand out several chapters of this book instead. The gift and love of literacy is something that should be more promoted among all families, as it has the greatest chance of creating good, profitable, and enjoyable lives for our children.
I learned so many different techniques about promoting reading and writing among my preschool age child and my older childre...more
I learned so many different techniques about promoting reading and writing among my preschool age child and my older childre...more
Excellent book. Really stresses the importance of talking with your children and reading to them, encouraging them to really enjoy learning. I will have to pick it up again when my daughter is 5 and again during the "middle childhood" years. Not much for preschoolers, except the author emphasizes just talk, talk, talk!
I was dog-earing pages of every single chapter, and making notes of things I want remember. I really agree with the author's philosophies about learning, and think it's a GREAT read for any parent concerned with the education of their children (all the parents I know).
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I really enjoyed it and will need to either buy it or get it from the library again in a few years - just to remind myself of what is really the important stuff.
Great book.
At times overwhelming for the non-teacher but I sure hope to have internalized at least some of the recommendations.
At times overwhelming for the non-teacher but I sure hope to have internalized at least some of the recommendations.
I would rank this along with everything I have read by David Albert as one of the most influential books on my homeschooling (even though it is not written for homeschoolers). This book is filled with great advice on how to bring a sense of wonder and curiosity to learning in the home.
From this book I took (and loved) the idea that learning is a process. It's something I knew but loved the examples she used to make the argument so concrete for me. She talks about when children are learning to walk or speak and how parents don't expect them to walk or speak correctly on their first attempt or even their 100th attempt. She states that when it comes to writing, we should feel the same and not expect them to spell correctly from the get go. This guide is wonderful to instill a lo...more
This book is excellent. As a mom who plans to homeschool I found the author's ideas to be well-written and easy to understand. I took this out from the library, but I think I'll buy a copy. There is so much good information & some great ideas I know I'll be referring to them through the years.
This book is an amazing guide to help you help your children to read and enjoy it for the rest of their lives. I loved some of the ideas about being creative during play. Legos in the bathtub. Who would've thought? Also, playig I spy and using the first letter of the word you are spying. I've already implemented some of her tactics especially with my emerging readers. This is a handbook I will refer frequently to while raising my daughters.
This is a great book for parents of children from toddlers on up. I am really enjoying it as the mom of a kindergartner who is in the throes of learning so many new things this year and feel it has good practical advice on everyday activities and habits to promote learning in the home. I am realizing more than ever that it is there that we impact our children the most and it carries over into the school setting (not vice versa). HIGHLY recommended.
Wow, what a great book. This is now on my "must read" list of recommended books for parents and will be given as gifts in the future. It's just a down to earth, encouraging book on how we can help our kids love learning and reading. The author's style (which probably isn't for everyone) really resonated with me.
I want this book on my permanent shelf--great reference!
I'm really enjoying this book so far...I love the suggestions she gives for encouraging your children to love reading and writing. The advice she gives on the importance of play for children (and how to best faciliate their play) is my favorite chapter so far.
I was observing in a classroom and the teacher mentioned using Lucy Calkins approach to reading and writing. I had never heard of her before. I'm excited to read this book and glean insights from her.
I loved getting different ideas on how to help my children love learning and reading/writing. I especially liked how she reminded me that children learn through play, not workbooks.
My mind's been blown. An amazing book and engaging with our children and helping them to love learning in all area's of their lives. More review later...
I'd love for my kiddos to have a passion for learning and to love life. Gives some real-life examples of how to emphasize this when raising your kids.
while Lucy sometimes smacks of a snob, her down to earth recomendations are fantasticly interesting to read and I have found them helpfull.
This book changed the way I parent and the way that I view the educational process. I would highly recommend it.
Jun 18, 2013
Ian Arcega
marked it as to-read
Jun 10, 2013
Sushmita
is currently reading it
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