CLAM: Cognitive Learning Activities and Manual

By Leslie McKerns

Teachers, Home Schoolers and Parents: Keep Your Kids Happy as a Clam while Learning! CLAM (Cognitive Learning Activities & Manual) is for grades 2-7, with more advanced level activities taking it into grade 8. CLAM stimulates the development of intellectual abilities, developing language, creative and critical thinking skills while at the same time developing key motor and behavioral skills.

For the active, eager learner superstar to the reluctant learner or even those with some special needs, the fun and engaging learning activities in the book provide both solitary and interactive activities for learning.

Perfect for home schooling programs. Filled with craft activity resources to make learning fun. Our activities have been developed to assist parents, classroom teachers, after school programs, camps, and others who may have a need for enjoyable enrichment activities to keep willing learners happily engaged.
Teachers, parents and other educators will love the CLAM learning program manual with definitions, explanations, and directions. Also included in CLAM:
•fifteen (15) cognitive language activities, “paper and pencil” challenges and games in language, creative and critical thinking skills. Kids explore and learn vocabulary and definitions, opposites, parts to wholes, sequencing, attributes, categorizing, if/then relationships (cause and effect), creating a scrapbook, keeping a journal and more.
•an extensive resource list with sellers of hundreds of craft ideas, patterns, recipes, instructions, and materials. Sources are for “hands-on” activities as: sewing, knitting, braiding, beading; scrap booking, cooking, assembling model kits, origami (Japanese paper folding), painting by color, jigsaw puzzles, scrabble and other games.
•CLAM stimulates the development of intellectual abilities, developing language, creative and critical thinking skills while at the same time developing key motor and behavioral skills.
•Kids will develop such learning behaviors and skills as: vocabulary development, understanding and following directions, attention, memory, hand-eye coordination, patterning, sharing and turn taking, along with the personal satisfaction in creating finished products.

Who should buy this book?
Home schoolers and other parents, classroom and special education teachers, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, after school programs, camps, and those planning special events such as birthdays or gatherings when engaging, interactive and educational activities are wanted.

For the active, eager learner superstar to the reluctant learner or even those with some special needs, the fun and engaging learning activities in the book provide both solitary and interactive activities for learning. Perfect for home schooling programs. Our activities have been developed to assist parents, classroom teachers, after school programs, camps, and others who may have a need for enjoyable enrichment activities to keep willing learners happily engaged.
Who needs this book?
•Teachers, parents and leaders of eager learners who need new activities.
•Less successful learners who engage in avoidance and need interesting activities as inducements to participate and become involved. The program and activities in CLAM will assist parents, therapists, classroom teachers, special education teachers, or others who have a need to get children involved in learning when they have demonstrated difficulty in doing so. For these children, the activities should be presented as inducements.

CLAM is written by two communication experts, one a Speech/Language Pathologist, cognitive language and education professional (M.Ed., Ph.D.), the other, with a varied career in which communication skills have been essential, in writing, advertising, and as a business consultant and publicist.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Leslie McKerns
• Release date: Oct 7, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301046874

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C.L.A.M.

Cognitive learning Activities & Manual

DOROTHY MCKERNS, M.Ed. Ph.D, and LESLIE MCKERNS, B.A., B.S

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Smashwords Edition

Copyright 2012 Dorothy McKerns and Leslie McKerns

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About the Authors

Dorothy McKerns, M.Ed., Ph.D., has co-authored with Leslie McKerns four other books . Their most recent book, a remedial grammar, is titled GrammarCheetah. Dorothy’s long career in education and as a Speech-Language Pathologist has provided opportunity for diagnosis and treatment of learning and communication problems in rehabilitation hospitals and in the public schools. She has been a teacher of patients, students, parents, and other teachers, and contributes to the development of curriculum materials and approaches.

Leslie McKerns, B.A., B.S. has had a varied career in which communication skills have been essential, in advertising, as a commercial interior designer, as a business developer and consultant, and as a publicist. She has co-authored two other grammar books and two comprehensive manuals for therapeutic education of traumatically brain injured individuals, all published by major publishers. Her newest book, is GrammarCheetah

Illustration Credits:

BigStock Photo: Scared Clam/Inge Schepers

BigStock Photo: Clam/Ken Benner

BigStock Photo: Oyster Cartoon/yayayoyo

Cover: Melanie Hooyenga

TABLE of CONTENTS

Part I Manual

A. Introduction

Purpose

Learning and learning to learn

Description of two types of learners

Skills required for learning

B. Description of cognitive learning program

Learning behaviors

C. Focal point of C.L.A.M. activities

Cognitive learning

Cognitive language

D. Selection and presentation of activities

E. Creating lesson plans

F. Record Keeping

Part II Reproducible paper and pencil Learning Activities

1. Category (Sounds)

2. Attribute (Use)

3. Categorizing (Objects, Movements, Sounds)

4. Attributes (Materials)

5. Attributes (Ingredients)

6. Reasons (Because) based on Categories

7. If/then Relationships (Cause and effect)

8. Vocabulary and Definitions

9. Parts to Wholes

10. Sequencing

11. Sequencing and Task Analysis

12. Opposites

13. More Opposites (Antonyms

14. Keeping a Journal Using a Format

15. Keeping a scrapbook as a Journal Companion

PART III: Hands on Resources List

PART IV: ANSWER KEY

C.L.A.M.

Cognitive Learning Activities & Manual

PART I: MANUAL

A. INTRODUCTION

1.Purpose

C.L.A.M. Cognitive Learning Activities & Manual, is a cognitive language learning program. The manual lays out the curriculum suitable for different types of learners from the active, eager learner to the reluctant learner or those with some special needs. The activities in the book provide both solitary and interactive activities for learning.

C.L.A.M. provides structured opportunities (paper and pencil challenges, games, activities and crafts) to learn the systems by which we organize the input from our senses and sensations into meaning. The C.L.A.M. Cognitive learning program stimulates the development of intellectual abilities, while at the same time, acts as a vehicle for the development of motor and behavioral skills.

Teachers, parents and others taking on the role of educator will have the learning program manual with definitions, explanations, and directions. Included are fifteen (15) cognitive language activities, and an extensive resource list with sellers of hundreds of craft ideas, patterns, recipes, instructions, and materials.

Who needs this book?

* Teachers, parents and leaders of eager learners who need new activities.

* Less successful learners who engage in avoidance and need interesting activities as inducements to participate and become involved.

Who should buy this book?

* Home schoolers and other parents, classroom and special education teachers, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, after school programs, camps, and those planning special events