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

by Carmen McGuinness and Geoffrey McGuinness

• ISBN13: 9780300083200
• ISBN10: 0300083203
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Trade Paper
• 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?

The authors of this book answer with a resounding yes. Carmen and Geoffrey McGuinness, creators of the acclaimed and widely used Phono-Graphix method of reading instruction, explain why it is important to teach children comprehension skills and how to do it. Parents and teachers seeking sound, research-supported advice on ways to improve their children's reading comprehension will find this book an essential resource. Each of the dozens of exercises and activities in the book is aimed at improving the comprehension -- and the writing skills -- of children from 6 to 18 years of age.

We can teach our children the skills they need to understand and use the information they read, the authors assure us. McGuinness and McGuinness show how comprehension can be broken down into small components of understanding. They provide a variety of fun-to-do lessons to help readers progress beyond decoding to real

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