Tools of the Mind: A Path to Build Knowledge and Construct Language through Play
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https://doi.org/10.30827/rl.v0i15.4677Keywords:
“Tools of the Mind”, Constructivism, Scaffolded Writing, Play Planning, VygotskyAbstract
“Tools of the Mind” is a Project created over the last twenty years. The core of this program is Vygotskian ideas about how to develop cognitive and literacy skills in young children. This has been a work in process plan that focusses on the acquisition of self–regulations, focused attention, as the critical skills that help young children to learn how to learn. In addition, the philosophy of the “Tools of the Mind” Curriculum is to conduct the children to build the foundation for later academic learning through specific skills development that involve symbolic thinking and the increase of early language and literacy concepts.Downloads
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