Increasingly, educators are recognizing that for children to thrive intellectually they need socially and emotionally healthy classrooms. Conveniently, this is exactly what parents have always wanted for their children''s classrooms that offer and grow positive relationships and behavior, emotional self-regulation, and a sense of well-being. Using the guiding principles from Peter Johnston''s best-selling professional resources, Choice Words and Opening Minds,Peter and six colleagues began a journey to create just such classrooms''senvironments in which children meaningfully engage with each other through reading, writing, making, and discussing books. Together, they bring you Engaging Literate Minds: Developing Children''s Social, Emotional, and Intellectual Lives, K-3 where you''ll discover how these teachers struggled and succeeded in building such classrooms. Inside you''ll find the following:
- Practical ways to develop a caring learning community and children''s socio-emoti
