Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom Ages 4-14

About this book

Written with warmth and humor Yardsticks offers clear descriptions of childrens development. This comprehensive user-friendly reference helps teachers and administrators use knowledge of child development to shape classrooms and schools where all children can succeed. For each age this book includes: Narrative description of developmental traits Charts summarizing physical social language and cognitive growth patterns Suggestions for curricular areas: reading writing mathematics and thematic units Favorite books for different ages. Whats new in the third edition: A new brief overview of issues in the development of bilingualism and biliteracy among Latino/Hispanic children A new appendix on the "birthday cluster exercise" for applying the information in the book to working with a whole class of students An updated list of recommended childrens books An updated list of recommended resources for teachers and parents.