Is your child ready for school? : a guide for parents

✍ Scribed by Beale, Ivan L.; Heriot, Sandra

• Publisher: ACER Press
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 112
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A child who succeeds at school not only enjoys learning, but also knows how to learn. Is Your Child Ready for School? shows you, the parent, how to prepare your child for school and how to nourish curiosity so that learning is a positive and pleasurable experience. The authors explain learning and how to encourage it in a way that you will find easy to understand and easy to apply with your own children.

✦ Table of Contents

Preliminaries
Foreword
Contents
Introduction
1 What does it mean to be 'ready for school'?
2 What is learning and why is it so important?
3 The happy and successful learner
4 Motivation to learn
5 Playing and incidental learning
6 Learning to be socially competent
7 Concentration and staying on task
8 Remembering what's learned
9 Using all the senses
10 Learning motor skills
11 Making a hard task easy
12 What makes learning last?
13 Abilities and disabilities
14 Fads and fallacies
15 Professional help: benefits and limitations
16 What should preschool children learn?