How to Increase Your Child's Verbal Intelligence; The Language Wise Method

by Carmen McGuinness and Geoffrey McGuinness

• ISBN13: 9780300083187
• ISBN10: 0300083181
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2000-03-11
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

Are there specific ways for parents and teachers to help children better understand what they read and hear? Is it possible to raise a child's verbal intelligence?

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
SECTION ONE
Verbal Intelligence Can I Make My Child More ``Language Wise''?	1	(14)
The Learning Curve Human Motivation	15	(22)
In A Word The Nature of Language	37	(22)
Away With Words From Vocabulary to Comprehension	59	(36)
Remembering Attention and Memory in Learning	95	(28)
Problem Solving Logical Reasoning and Creativity	123	(134)
SECTION TWO
The ``Language Wise'' Verbal Intelligence Activities	147	(110)
Afterword	257	(2)
Selected Bibliography	259