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Cheri J. Meiners, M.Ed., has her master’s degree in elementary education and gifted education. A former first-grade teacher, she has taught education classes at Utah State University and has supervised student teachers. Cheri and her husband, David, have six children. They live in Laurel, Maryland.

Knowing how to listen is essential to learning, growing, and getting along with others.

Simple words and inviting illustrations help children develop skills for listening, understand why it’s important to listen, and recognize the positive results of listening.

Includes a note to teachers and parents, additional information for adults, and activities.

School Library Journal

K-Gr 1-Two books aimed directly at issues that arise in the classroom and on the playground, presenting the social skills needed to address them and ideas and activities for parents and teachers to reinforce them. The titles could not be more didactic in tone and spirit; the greeting-card illustrations are determinedly multicultural and multiabled, bluntly repeating the lessons at hand. Sample dialogue: "I think about what I hear. Thinking helps me learn and remember" (from Listen). "I'm learning to make good choices. I'm learning to think about others" (from Share). It's unlikely that this kind of iteration actually motivates children. These books may be of some use in the classroom, but they are of doubtful value in a general collection.-Dona Ratterree, New York City Public Schools Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.