Reviews
Review by: Erika Christakis - January 8, 2018
As educators navigate a climate of increasing anxiety and expectations about our youngest learners, the essential role of oral language in child development has been neglected. Carol Garhart Mooney restores the art of conversation to its rightful place in the early childhood curriculum and provides an indispensable program for teachers, new and old, looking to make their words matter. Clear, comprehensive, and highly engaging, Choose Your Words should find a special place on every teacher’s bookshelf.
Review by: Holly Bruno - January 8, 2018
In Choose Your Words, Carol Garhart Mooney gently and non-shamingly offers practical everyday loving ways to choose and use words so warmth and humor, understanding and positive action can result. Don’t miss this ever-so-readable guidebook! Your work and spirit and optimism will be uplifted.
Review by: Mary Moran - January 8, 2018
An invaluable book for teachers and parents who strive to make a positive impact on the language development and communication experiences of young children. It is perhaps Mooney’s emphasis on the dialectic between careful and targeted listening and opportunities to hone communication capabilities that is most helpful in guiding how we make meaning through language with young children.