New Releases by Dawn DiPrince

This book illuminates the complexities associated with social and emotional learning during early childhood and arms readers with the tools necessary to foster these skills within their homes and classrooms. Affective development is critical to childhood development - this guide gives parents and educators concrete strategies to support student's social skills, relationship development, and positive mental health. Expertly blending theory with practice, Social and Emotional Learning for Advanced Children in Early Childhood: Birth to 8 presents vital background information, real examples, case studies, and action steps for implementing SEL into any early childhood environment. By covering both what is understood about social and emotional development in early childhood as well as the proven methods and approaches for working with young children, this comprehensive guide is a must read for all adults wanting to make an impact in early childhood development.

Provides over 200 impersonal creative writing prompts for writers of middle-school age and higher, along with sample responses.

Includes 365 writing prompts to help writers of all ages experiment with words and play with language.

Features practical exercises for persuasive writing that teach how to provide evidence to support a thesis statement, distinguish fact from opinion, avoid ambiguous language, and use transition words effectively.

Takes an honest, realistic approach to helping students become better learners.

Includes educational and challenging activities for traditional holidays like Thanksgiving and Presidents' Day, as well as unusual ones like Sports Junkie Week, Most Boring Films of the Year Day, and Sauerkraut Salad and Sandwich Season.

This CD-ROM allows students to navigate their way through the activities in Writing Your Life-by using a computer. With the Writing Your Life Interactive CD-ROM, users travel down a highway, choosing different road signs that lead them to various sets of questions-all corresponding to the questions in Writing Your Life. Students can save and print their work, editing and compiling it later into a complete autobiography, if desired. The CD-ROM is PC compatible only.