Download or read book Use Your Words written by Carol Garhart Mooney and published by Redleaf Press. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use Your Words examines the ways early childhood teachers talk to children, pointing out commonly missed opportunities to support cognitive development, develop receptive and expressive language, and aid children in their primary developmental task of making sense of the world. From the author of Theories of Childhood, this humorous and thoughtful guide contains a wealth of classroom examples, as well as clear alternatives for transforming the language teachers use in the classroom.