PARENTS’ SUGGESTED READING LIST
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| Carla Hanford, Ph.D | ||
 Smart Moves : Why Learning Is Not All in Your HeadHow is the body involved in learning from infancy right through adulthood? Physical activity is crucial. A neuroscientist explains why and gives simple physical exercises that can increase anyone's learning power immediately. It explores brain development, neurological effects of TV, nutrition, stress, and causes of the growing plague of learning disabilities.
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| Jane Healy, Ph.D | ||
 Endangered Minds-Why children don’t think and what
we can do about itDr. Healy examines the decline in schools and offers concrete advice for improving our students' endangered minds. A fascinating assessment which argues that children in today's fast-paced electronic world use their brains differently than did children in past generations.
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| Dr. Becky Bailey | ||
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| Alfie Kohn | ||
 Punished by Rewards : The Trouble With Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A'S, Praise, and Other BribesAn acclaimed author and lecturer indicts the practice of manipulating people with external incentives. Drawing on a wealth of psychological research, Kohn points the way to a more successful strategy based on working with people instead of doing things to them. An argument unsettling to hear but impossible to dismiss.
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| Howard Gardner | ||
 Multiple Intelligences : The Theory in Practice
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of Mind : The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
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| Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D | ||
 7 Kinds of Smart : Identifying and Developing Your Many IntelligencesThis book will rearrange your thinking about what it means to be smart. Based on Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner's pioneering theory of multiple intelligences, it reveals that there are at least seven distinct ways of being smart--and offers dozens of exercises designed to help identify your capabilities and apply them in your everyday life.
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 Awakening Your Child's Natural Genius : Enhancing Curiosity, Creativity, and Learning AbilityBaby-boomer parents with nearly 26 million children and more on the way--are looking for new and creative ways to help their youngsters develop and achieve their full potential. They want practical ideas for activities to do at home and authoritative advice on how to get the most out of their children's schools. Illustrations throughout.
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 In Their Own WayThis book speaks to the millions of parents and teachers with children who are having difficulty in school. The author shows how to perceive children as individuals with distinct learning styles (linguistic, kinetic, interpersonal, etc.) and how take full advantage of their hidden aptitudes.
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| Edited by Victoria Jean Dimidjian | ||
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| Stephen Nachmanovitch | ||
 Free Play : Improvisation in Life and ArtSee author's web page: www.freeplay.com
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| Lella Gandani, George Forman, and Carolyn Edwards | ||
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