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ERIC Number: EJ536373
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-4056
Turn Catalog Clutter into Creative Learning. For Parents Particularly.
Newman, Rita
Childhood Education, v73 n2 p103-04 Win 1996-97
Suggests parents use catalogs to help children increase reading and math skills. Points out that catalogs link language and print, that children can increase vocabulary through picture naming, and that sorting pictures and classifying objects can increase thinking skills. Suggests that children can practice adding, counting, and comparison shopping while completing order forms. Lists 24 books to use with catalogs. (AMC)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Creative Activities, Educational Resources, Language Acquisition, Literacy Education, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Influence, Parent Participation, Prereading Experience, Thinking Skills, Visual Learning, Vocabulary Development, Young Children
Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Family Literacy; Parent Teaching Home; Parental Efficacy