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Supporting your Child’s Early Reading Development at Home

Supporting your Child’s Early Reading Development at Home

Supporting your Child’s Early Reading Development at Home

Jen Naiman, Director of Student Support, and Shelley Cruse, Education Director, delve into how to support your child’s early reading development at home. Together they discuss the joys and challenges of supporting your child’s skill-building at home, and give practical tools for how to encourage your child’s lifelong love of reading.
 
As referenced in the recording, here are supplemental materials from the workshop that you may find useful when practicing reading with your child at home:
 
Please reach out if you have any follow up questions.
Jen Naiman

Jen Naiman

Director of Student Support

Shelley Cruse

Shelley Cruse

Director of Education

The Montessori Family: Motivation and Discipline at Home

The Montessori Family: Motivation and Discipline at Home

The Montessori Family: Bringing Montessori Motivation & Discipline to the Home

What is the role of the adult in a child’s life? What can you do to help your child reach their true potential? Head of School, Tamara Sheesley Balis, discusses the recent research and strategies from Dr. Tina Payne Bryson, Daniel Siegel, Ross Greene, and Hand in Hand Parenting.

Recommended Reading

No-Drama Discipline

No-Drama Discipline

By Daniel Siegel and Dr. Tina Payne Bryson

No-Drama Discipline Workbook

No-Drama Discipline Workbook

By Daniel Siegel, MD and Dr. Tina Payne Bryson, PhD

The Whole Brain Child

The Whole Brain Child

By Daniel Siegel, MD and Dr. Tina Payne Bryson, PhD

Additional Resources

Hand in Hand Parenting

My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts by Resmaa Menakem

Feelings Wheel

The Montessori Child: Supporting Your Child’s Emotional Resiliency, Self-Compassion, and Strong Sense of Self 

The Montessori Child: Supporting Your Child’s Emotional Resiliency, Self-Compassion, and Strong Sense of Self 

The Montessori Child

Supporting Your Child’s Emotional Resiliency, Self-Compassion, and Strong Sense of Self 

What does the child need in order to grow up feeling a strong sense of self-compassion and purpose? Tamara Sheesley Balis, Head of School at Greenspring Montessori School leads this session on the Montessori child, featuring new research in neuroscience from Dr. Tina Payne Bryson and Dr. Daniel Siegel, authors of The Whole Brain Child. Join us as we get grounded in Montessori and child development together.

Additional Resources

The Whole Brain Child

The Whole Brain Child

by Daniel J. Siegel and Dr. Tina Payne Bryson

The Yes Brain

The Yes Brain

by Daniel J. Siegel and Dr. Tina Payne Bryson

Cleaning House

Cleaning House

by Kay Wills Wyma

Escaping the Endless Adolescence

Escaping the Endless Adolescence

by Claudia Worrell Allen and Joseph P. Allen

The Big Disconnect

The Big Disconnect

by Catherine Steiner-Adair

The Montessori Home: An Environment for your Child’s Independence, Engagement, and Growth

The Montessori Home: An Environment for your Child’s Independence, Engagement, and Growth

The Montessori Home: An Environment for your Child’s Independence, Engagement, and Growth

Head of School, Tamara Sheesley Balis, discusses creating a Montessori home environment to support your child’s development.

For a breakdown of suggestions by room, take a look at each of the blog posts below as well. 

Additional Resources

The Montessori Toddler

The Montessori Toddler

By Simone Davies

Montessori from the Start

Montessori from the Start

By Paula Polk Lillard

How to Raise an Amazing Child the Montessori Way

How to Raise an Amazing Child the Montessori Way

By Tim Seldin

Other Sites

Michael Olaf Catalog

howwemontessori.com

forsmallhands.com

Raising Self-Confident Children

Raising Self-Confident Children

Tamara Sheesley Balis, Head of School at Greenspring Montessori School, offers a parenting webinar on raising confident children. Learn about strategies you can implement at home to help children and adolescents of any age grow their confidence.