Choose Your Words: Communicating with Young Children, Second Edition

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Choose Your Words, Second Edition

“Teacher Talk” and how it supports or complicates children’s learning and the world around them.

Giving directions and assessing whether we have been successful in our attempts to accomplish these tasks with the young children in our lives.

Correcting behavior. What words can we choose to help children connect their words and actions with directives?

Appropriate curriculum in language learning for very young children.

The importance of plain old talking. Focusing on conversations, discussions, and storytelling. It also briefly discusses the morphing of language into a whole new action as a result of rapid technological change and continual device use by most Americans.

Contemporary challenges that make all of these tasks pose such difficult questions and such exciting opportunities.

Reviews

- 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: Erika Christakis
- 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: Holly Bruno
- 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.

Review by: Mary Moran