Series of children's books

1.7 Evidence Based Research Study Evidence based design makes it possible to design a classroom that can measurably improve children's development since it is the process of arriving at design guidelines through a series of researches and behaviour study. One of the most under recognised evaluation tools to use along with this research type is Observational Assessment. It has following advantages: i. Non-intrusive i.e. does not overtake the privacy ii. Yields credible and instant…

Metaphor Drucker (1994) defined a metaphor as a method of explaining, thinking or experiencing one thing through another thing. Numerous studies have been shown that preschoolers and early elementary school age children have the ability to understand some verbal metaphors (Vosniadou & Ortony, 1983). Piaget (1962) also believed that young children learn to separate the symptoms from what they represents. Metaphors can be used as a therapeutic tool with children. Children express their views and…

Suzanne Collins is an American writer who is known for writing The Underland Chronicles and The Hunger Games series. Suzanne Collins was born on August 10, 1962 in Hartford, CT. Some of her family consists of her father, Michael, her mom, Jane, a sister, Kathy-Janie, and her brother, Drew. In her early years she ended up moving several times to places such as New York City and Brussels because her father, Michael, was an Air Force pilot. During her time of moving she enjoyed doing gymnastics,…

New York, Pennsylvania and Japan. She is now 79 years old, and has written at least 48 books. She published her first novel, A Summer to Die in 1977. This story was a fictional account of her sister's passing. After the serious novel, Lowry showed her funny side with the book about a suburban preteen and her family in Anastasia Krupnik. This was written in 1979 and became the first in a series of humorous books. She won her first Newbery Award for the 1989 historical novel about the Holocaust…

J.K. Rowling is a world renowned writer with a great sense of Aristotelian appeals. She is the writer of the Harry Potter series and a graduate of the University of Exeter. In June of 2008, she was asked to write the commencement speech at Harvard University. She titled the speech, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination.” As the title explains, she decides to speak about the benefits of failure and her personal failures. As she talks about failure, she tells the…

cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all-in which case, you fail by default.” -J.K. Rowling. Before becoming the author of the world’s best selling series, J.K. Rowling considered herself a failure. However, her story of imagination and perseverance shows that amazing things can come from nothing. The author of a book series that inspires empathy and sparks imagination, a celebrity with incredible philanthropy, and a great example of perseverance, J.K. Rowling is easily the…

“I love books. I love that moment when you open one and sink into it, you can escape from the world, into a story that’s way more interesting than yours will ever be,” (Scott). When reading, one often forgets the world around them and become engrossed in the book. Reading has impacted me in many ways, including the way I think, see or feel about different situations. ()Another way that reading has impacted me is that it can often take one’s mind off of outside situations that one may have going…

Clive Lewis was an extremely talented writer, who many people may know for his best selling series, The Chronicles of Narnia. In this essay, I will be telling you all about the life of Clive Lewis, and the hardships he faced in his earlier years. Clive Staples Lewis was born on November 29, 1898, in Belfast Ireland. His two parents, Albert and Flora, loved to read. Lewis grew up surrounded by books, which possibly sparked his interest in literature in college. As a young boy, Louis insisted…

I grew up in what is considered a low income family, but I’ve always wanted to go to college. Before I even understood the concept of degrees, I would tell my parents “I want to go to college for seven years!” because I thought we could just choose how long we could go to college for. As I grew up, my goals became realistic. Instead of being president, however, I now want to do something that involves helping others and educating. I would like to work in schools, preferably high school was an…

and was a kindergarten teacher. Tedd became fascinated in the picture books his wife was reading to her kindergarten students. When his first son Walter was born, it encouraged Tedd to start illustrating his own books. He moved…