Let's Play Learning: For Language: Reading, Writing and Spelling - Softcover

Dodds, Helena Robyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9780995501 ISBN 13: 9789780995508

Publisher: Helena Dodds, 1616

Synopsis

My manuscript, Let’s Play Learning, is a book for families that have a child starting school. I wrote it with the sure knowledge that children aged 3 – 7 years have a natural love of learning.  Children are happy to share their intense joy of learning and it is too often met with, “That’s not the way to do it.” The joy of my book is that it moves away from disciplined learning. It shows parents how to engage with the delight that children experience towards learning. I show parents how to uncover creativity, rather than suppressing it. The liberation of independence and responsibility is the outcome of this journey with children. Playfulness leads to engagement with the deep learning that children require for their development. This, in turn, leads to intense concentration that can never come from stern discipline. My first rule for the adults is, “Leave the teaching to the teacher.” Little children learn and absorb every action, emotion and attitude from those who surround them. With this in mind, I have written to show parents and all the adults who participate in the child’s learning, how to learn with the child without winning and losing, right or wrong. ( Make “I don’t know” a safe place to be.) The child is able to experience progress and development with joy similar to that which we adults experience when we achieve a personal goal. The work or play sessions are sufficiently challenging for the little ones to keep them interested and successful. The book will also be useful for children who have missed out on the basics of reading, writing or spelling. They will warm readily to the games and activities because they will not be confronted with the failure they have previously experienced.

Edition details

• Publisher: Helena Dodds
• Publication date: 1616
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9780995501
• ISBN 13: 9789780995508
• Binding: Paperback