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Free Download Ana Carolina Pena, "Effects of Family Literacy Interventions on Children’s Acquisition of Reading "
English | ISBN: 1607412365 | 2009 | 98 pages | PDF | 1290 KB
Parents can help their children learn to read. The effectiveness of parents’ help, however, varies according to the type of parent-child activities. Educators, when deciding which type of intervention to implement, will have to weigh the differences in effectiveness across the different types of intervention against the amount of resources needed to implement the interventions. The information in this book comes from many research studies that examined early literacy development. This book contains a summary of what scientific research says about how children learn to read and write, and also discusses the things you can do with your child at different grade levels to help him become a reader. What to look for in quality day-care centres and pre-schools to help your children become readers is examined as well.

Free Download Handbook of Children and Screens: Digital Media, Development, and Well-Being from Birth Through Adolescence by Dimitri A. Christakis, Lauren Hale
English | January 17, 2025 | ISBN: 3031693612 | 698 pages | PDF | 27 Mb
This open access handbook synthesizes the current research about the impacts of digital media on children across development. Drawing on the expertise of scientists and researchers as well as clinicians and practitioners, the book summarizes research through interdisciplinary expert reviews. First, it addresses the cognitive, physical, mental, and psychosocial impacts on infants, children, and adolescents. Next, the book explores how media influences relationships, family, culture, and society. Finally, it examines the impacts of specific digital domains pertinent to youth, including education technology, video gaming, and emerging technologies. Chapters employ a parallel structure, including background on the topic, summary of the current state of the research, future research directions, and recommendations for relevant stakeholders. The volume examines the timely issue of optimal child development in an increasingly digital age, offering innovative approaches to establish a solid and robust scientific foundation for this field of study as well as evidence-based action for adults who support positive youth development.

Free Download Roger Sawyer, "Children Enslaved"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1032310669 | PDF | pages: 261 | 12.4 mb
Children Enslaved, first published in 1988, reveals the full extent of child slavery throughout the world. By personal investigation in regions where slavery still prevails, and with extensive research into documentation provided by international organizations defending children’s rights, the author gives the most comprehensive assessment available of contemporary child slavery. He describes both persisting traditional forms of child exploitation and modern abuses and deprivations of freedom, including child migrant workers and those involved in the manufacturing industry, and the desolate world of child pornography and sexual exploitation.

Free Download Karen Coats, Deborah Stevenson, Vivian Yenika-Agbaw, "A Companion to Children’s Literature"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1119038227 | PDF | pages: 484 | 19.9 mb
A COMPANION TO CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

Free Download Máire Messenger Davies, "’Dear BBC’: Children, Television Storytelling and the Public Sphere"
English | 2001 | pages: 290 | ISBN: 0521780772 | PDF | 1,2 mb
Drawing on the diverse views of over 1,300 children in the UK between the ages of 6-12, "Dear BBC" discusses key controversies in the public sphere about children’s relationship with the media, especially television drama. Máire Messenger Davies draws on material gathered from an audience research project commissioned by the BBC, based on surveys, structured discussions with children and interviews with program makers and policy makers.

Free Download Thursday’s Children by Jacqueline Kent, Tom Roberts
English | September 26, 2024 | ISBN: 1915590329 | EPUB | 4.47 Mb
Praise for A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, a literary life:’A sharp-eyed and warm-hearted biography … the pleasure of Davis’ company is further enlivened by Kent’s own quietly witty take on her material.’

Free Download Barbara Szmigielska, "Children’s Dreams "
English | ISBN: 1608767043 | 2010 | 198 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The present book is one of very few monographs in the world literature devoted to various aspects of children’s dreams. It reviews the extant literature on the topic, as well as provides the results of the author’s own research concerning children’s understanding of the sleep process and dream phenomenon. The book presents data from the literature and compares them with the results of the author’s own research. The findings obtained by the present author constitute a substantial contribution to modern psychological knowledge on the development of children’s thinking and their dreams. They demonstrate, for example, that it is possible to find out what children dream about without asking them directly, merely by talking about sleep in general. This approach can be useful when direct conversation with the child about its dreams is not possible. Apart from data on children’s knowledge about the process of sleep, the book also presents the basic facts on this process that are indispensable for understanding the relations between sleep and dream The book presents results of research on how children understand two related concepts: sleep and dream. The monograph presents not only analysis of dream reports but also colour drawings made by children to illustrate their dreams. Since this approach is not discussed in the literature, the author offers several suggestions on how to use drawings in the analysis of children’s dreams. The book discusses findings concerning the relations between children’s daytime experiences and their nocturnal dreams. Presented are, among others, relations between dreams and such traumatic events as illness, war or parental divorce. The analysis of children’s reports provided an answer to the question of development of knowledge concerning the nature and function of sleep during childhood.

Free Download C. Edwards, L. Gandini, G. Forman, "Hundred Languages of Children: The Reggio Emilia Approach to Early Childhood Education"
English | 1998 | pages: 532 | ISBN: 156750311X | PDF | 410,0 mb
The city-run early childhood program of Reggio Emilia, Italy, has become recognized and acclaimed as one of the best systems of education in the world. Over the past forty years, educators there have evolved a distinctive innovative approach that supports children’s well-being and fosters their intellectual development through a systematic focus on symbolic representation. Young children (from birth to age six) are encouraged to explore their environment and express themselves through many "languages," or modes of expression, including words, movement, drawing, painting, sculpture, shadow play, collage, and music. Leading children to surprising levels of symbolic skill and creativity, the system is not private and elite but rather involves full-day child care open to all, including children with disabilities.

Free Download Michael Ungar, "Handbook for Working with Children and Youth: Pathways to Resilience Across Cultures and Contexts"
English | ISBN: 1412904056 | 2005 | 552 pages | PDF | 43 MB
The Handbook For Working With Children & Youth: Pathways To Resilience Across Cultures and Contexts examines lives lived well despite adversity. Calling upon some of the most progressive thinkers in the field, it presents a groundbreaking collection of original writing on the theories, methods of study, and interventions to promote resilience. Unlike other works that have left largely unquestioned their own culture-bound interpretations of the ways children and youth survive and thrive, this volume explores the multiple paths children follow to health and well-being in diverse national and international settings. It demonstrates the connection between social and political health resources and addresses the more immediate concerns of how those who care for children create the physical, emotional, and spiritual environments in which resilience is nurtured.

Free Download Dr. Platt, Geoffrey K., "Children and Handedness: Making the Right Choices "
English | ISBN: 1619422263 | 2012 | 174 pages | PDF | 11 MB
This text looks at the causes of left handedness, its effects on those ‘afflicted’, and at potential ‘cures’. In order to do this, the research has sought out the problems or conditions that are positively correlated to left handedness.