Roberta Michnick Golinkoff: 6 books

Book cover of Einstein Never Used Flash Cards

Einstein Never Used Flash Cards

How Our Children Really Learn--and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less

by Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Diane Eyer
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2004

Now Available in Paperback! In Einstein Never Used Flashcards highly credentialed child psychologists, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Ph.D., and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Ph.D., with Diane Eyer, Ph.D., offer a compelling indictment of the growing trend toward accelerated learning. It's a message that...
Book cover of Becoming a Word Learner

Becoming a Word Learner

A Debate on Lexical Acquisition

by Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek, Lois Bloom
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2000

Language acquisition is a contentious field of research occupied by cognitive and developmental psychologists, linguists, philosophers, and biologists. Perhaps the key component to understanding how language is mastered is explaining word acquisition. At twelve months, an infant learns new words slowly...
Book cover of How Babies Talk

How Babies Talk

The Magic and Mystery of Language in the First Three Years of Life

by Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2000

In their first three years of life, babies face the most complex learning endeavor they will ever undertake as human beings: They learn to talk. Now, as researchers make new forays into the mystery of the development of the human brain, Golinkoff and Hirsh-Pasek, both developmental psychologists and...
Book cover of Developing Early Comprehension

Developing Early Comprehension

Laying the Foundation for Reading Success

by Sandra Barrueco Ph.D., Kelly Cartwright, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015

How does early comprehension develop in young children, and how can we better prepare preschoolers to become successful readers? This important volume compiles today's best research on the often-overlooked topic of prereader comprehension: what we know about it now, and what we need to know to build...
Book cover of A Mandate for Playful Learning in Preschool

A Mandate for Playful Learning in Preschool

Applying the Scientific Evidence

by Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Laura E. Berk
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2008

We are robbing young children of play time at home and school in an effort to give them a head start on academic skills like reading and mathematics. Yet the scientific evidence suggests that eliminating play from the lives of children is taking preschool education in the wrong direction. This brief...
Book cover of Play = Learning

Play = Learning

How Play Motivates and Enhances Children's Cognitive and Social-Emotional Growth

by Dorothy Singer, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2006

In Play=Learning, top experts in child development and learning contend that in over-emphasizing academic achievement, our culture has forgotten about the importance of play for children's development.
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