Let's find out! : building content knowledge with young children /

"In her new book, Let's Find Out!, kindergarten teacher Susan Kempton talks about the importance of helping children build the content knowledge that is critical to educational success. She shows how she capitalizes on children's natural curiosity and uses various tools--literature (p...

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Main Author:	Kempton, Susan L. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Portland, Maine : Stenhouse Publishers, [2014]
Subjects:	Reading comprehension > Study and teaching (Elementary) Content area reading. Language arts > Correlation with content subjects. Interdisciplinary approach in education. Reading, Psychology of. Schemas (Psychology) Language arts (Primary) Literacy > Study and teaching (Primary) Comprehension in children. Learning, Psychology of.

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Summary:	"In her new book, Let's Find Out!, kindergarten teacher Susan Kempton talks about the importance of helping children build the content knowledge that is critical to educational success. She shows how she capitalizes on children's natural curiosity and uses various tools--literature (particularly nonfiction), visuals, living and nonliving artifacts, drawing, song, movement, dramatization--to develop language, concepts, and basic literacy skills"--
Item Description:	For grades pre-K-2.
Physical Description:	xi, 244 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-238) and index.
ISBN:	9781571109514 (paperback) 157110951X (paperback)