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Free Downloads

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Hands-on Exercises

• Excerpts from Saving Literacy
  • The Importance of Mark-Making to Child Development from a Neurobiological point of view, page  1-4
  • The Stages of Scribbling, page 74
  • The Stages of Drawing, page 75
  • Lesson Plans for a Marks-based Literacy Program, pages 138-139
  • Toward a Peaceable Kingdom, pages 223 - 230
  • The Importance of Maternal Gaze, pages 248-252
  • Dandelion Children and Orchid Children; new ways of understanding child behavior, with more praise for mothers, who make the difference.
• Exercises from HandMade Marks
  • Marks and Early Childhood
  • Looking at Early marks: Cave Paintings and Searching for Meaning (wolves), page 92 - 93
  • Looking at Early marks: Cave Paintings and Searching for Meaning (lizard), page 94 - 95
  • Looking at Early marks: Cave Paintings and Searching for Meaning (spirals), page 96 - 97
  • Lesson Plans for a Marks-based Literacy Program, page 160
  • Warm-up exercises for parents , page 161
  • Lesson Plans, pages 174-175
  • Basic Scribbles
  • Basic Shapes
  • Printing the Alphabet:
    • A-I
    • J-S
    • S-Z
  • Toward a Peaceable Kingdom, page 246
  • Dandelion Children and Orchid Children; new ways of understanding child behavior, with more praise for mothers, who make the difference.
• Excerpt from Drawing/Writing and the new literacy
  • Download "Preliminary Drawing/Writing" exercises
• Excerpt from Families and Drawing: Marks and Mind
  • Download Drawing/Writing exercise

Books

• The Thinking Child: A handbook for parents: A quick overview of Neuroconstructivist theory and the 5-step Drawing/Writing practice. - downloadable pdf version (warning, large file)
• Excerpt from HandMade Marks
  • Marks and Early Childhood
• Excerpt from Saving Literacy
  • Marks and Early Childhood

Papers

Please e-mail your questions or comments for Dr. Sheridan at susan.sheridan9@gmail.com

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