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Jingle Dancer (Paperback)
Cynthia L Smith; Illustrated by Cornelius Van Wright, Ying-Hwa Hu
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This book furthers understanding of how child temperament is linked
to educational outcomes through mediating and moderating factors.
As the importance of socio-emotional development for educational
outcomes is increasingly recognized, understanding the influence
that children's temperament-which includes their emotional
reactivity and regulation of emotions, cognitions, and
behaviors-can have on educational factors, such as school readiness
and academic achievement, is crucial. First, the chapters in this
book examine pathways connecting temperament with educational
outcomes; for example, one study reports that toddler negative
affect predicted executive functioning, which then predicted
achievement at age six. The second way that chapters in this book
examine links between temperament and education is by identifying
factors that make associations between temperament and educational
outcomes more salient; for example, findings from one study show
that shyness and negative emotion were more strongly associated
with lower academic achievement only when children received fewer
than nine hours of sleep each night, highlighting the importance of
sleep. By examining pathways through which temperament exerts
effects on educational outcomes (i.e., mediators), or factors that
modify associations between temperament and educational outcomes
(i.e., moderators), the potential for interventions aimed at
improving early educational outcomes can be fully realized. This
book was originally published as a special issue of Early Education
and Development.
Five starred reviews! In this beautifully reimagined story by NSK
Neustadt Laureate and New York Times bestselling author Cynthia
Leitich Smith (Muscogee Creek), Native American Lily and English
Wendy embark on a high-flying journey of magic, adventure, and
courage to a fairy-tale island known as Neverland... Lily and Wendy
have been best friends since they became stepsisters. But with
their feuding parents planning to spend the summer apart, what will
become of their family-and their friendship? Little do they know
that a mysterious boy has been watching them from the oak tree
outside their window. A boy who intends to take them away from home
for good, to an island of wild animals, Merfolk, Fairies, and
kidnapped children, to a sea of merfolk, pirates, and a giant
crocodile. A boy who calls himself Peter Pan. In partnership with
We Need Diverse Books
This book furthers understanding of how child temperament is linked
to educational outcomes through mediating and moderating factors.
As the importance of socio-emotional development for educational
outcomes is increasingly recognized, understanding the influence
that children's temperament-which includes their emotional
reactivity and regulation of emotions, cognitions, and
behaviors-can have on educational factors, such as school readiness
and academic achievement, is crucial. First, the chapters in this
book examine pathways connecting temperament with educational
outcomes; for example, one study reports that toddler negative
affect predicted executive functioning, which then predicted
achievement at age six. The second way that chapters in this book
examine links between temperament and education is by identifying
factors that make associations between temperament and educational
outcomes more salient; for example, findings from one study show
that shyness and negative emotion were more strongly associated
with lower academic achievement only when children received fewer
than nine hours of sleep each night, highlighting the importance of
sleep. By examining pathways through which temperament exerts
effects on educational outcomes (i.e., mediators), or factors that
modify associations between temperament and educational outcomes
(i.e., moderators), the potential for interventions aimed at
improving early educational outcomes can be fully realized. This
book was originally published as a special issue of Early Education
and Development.
Edited by award-winning and bestselling author Cynthia Leitich
Smith, this collection of intersecting stories by both new and
veteran Native writers bursts with hope, joy, resilience, the
strength of community, and Native pride. Native families from
Nations across the continent gather at the Dance for Mother Earth
Powwow in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In a high school gym full of color
and song, people dance, sell beadwork and books, and celebrate
friendship and heritage. Young protagonists will meet relatives
from faraway, mysterious strangers, and sometimes one another (plus
one scrappy rez dog). They are the heroes of their own stories.
Featuring stories and poems by: Joseph Bruchac Art Coulson
Christine Day Eric Gansworth Carole Lindstrom Dawn Quigley Rebecca
Roanhorse David A. Robertson Andrea L. Rogers Kim Rogers Cynthia
Leitich Smith Monique Gray Smith Traci Sorell, Tim Tingle Erika T.
Wurth Brian Young In partnership with We Need Diverse Books
-...This is the story of a young girl growing up with a wild
imagination, care-free, and oh so happy-living in her own little
world. As the years roll by, she becomes a mature woman, with an
imagination filled of her own secret passions and desires of a true
magical love that she had never known, but only dreamed of. Along
her journey of seeking true love, she encounters many life events
that her heart did not anticipate, including those of deceptions
and betrayals of her own heart, or as they became well known to
her, 'illusions of the heart'. It was that 'unconditional true
love' that her heart craved. Does a true magical love really exist,
or is it just a fathom of her own imagination? Can she ever trust
her own heart again? Will she encounter the dream of a life-time at
the end of the story? As an adult woman, she learns her strengths
and weaknesses in times of troubles within life's path, and all
about the department of love and its do's and don'ts.
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