Listen and Learn - Softcover

Cheri J. Meiners

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1575421232 ISBN 13: 9781575421230

Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing, 2003

Synopsis

Knowing how to listen is essential to learning, growing, and getting along with others. Simple words and inviting illustrations help children develop skills for listening, understand why it’s important to listen, and recognize the positive results of listening. Includes a note to teachers and parents, additional information for adults, and activities.

The Learning to Get Along® Series
The Learning to Get Along series helps children learn, understand, and practice basic social and emotional skills. Real-life situations, lots of diversity, and concrete examples make these read-aloud books appropriate for home and childcare settings, schools, and special education settings. Each book ends with a section of discussion questions, games, and activities adults can use to reinforce what children have learned. All titles are available in English-Spanish bilingual editions.

About this title

About the Authors

Cheri J. Meiners, M.Ed., has her master’s degree in elementary education and gifted education. A former first-grade teacher, she has taught education classes at Utah State University and has supervised student teachers.

Cheri and her husband, David, have six children and enjoy the lively company of their grandchildren. They live in St. George, Utah.

Meredith Johnson has worked for over twenty years as the art director at an advertising agency.

She is also the illustrator of over 120 children’s picture books, including Free Spirit’s popular Learning to Get Along® series.

Meredith lives with her family in La Cañada, California.

Reviews

Reviewed with Cheri J. Meiners' Share and Take Turns.

PreS-Gr. 1. From the Learning to Get Along series, these colorful books encourage children to learn social skills. In Listen an African American boy explains what listening means: keeping quiet, watching the person who talks, thinking about what is being said, and asking questions when he doesn't understand. He also talks about using those skills in the classroom and at home. Similarly, in Share a red-haired girl learns techniques for sharing, then shows how she shares and takes turns when playing at home with her sister and friends. Each book ends with the child feeling good about using his or her new skills. The bright line-and-wash illustrations feature multiracial groups of children engaged in familiar activities. The writing is purposeful, but it is also practical in approach and sensitive to the problems and feelings of young children. A good choice for teachers seeking books that reinforce familiar classroom messages. Carolyn Phelan
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Edition details

• Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1575421232
• ISBN 13: 9781575421230
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 40