Second Case Study-Chp. 3

1. I think that the most effective social skill they are trying to teach is when they are trying to get the more shy children to ask if they can play or join in. I think that this is more important than they more outgoing children asking because they shy children need that extra push to do something out of their comfort zone. It may be hard for them at first but it will eventually become easier for them to go up to a group of peers and ask if they can join in. They will use this skill throughout their entire lives, not just in school.

2. I think that children's literature would help with Erikson's stage of Industry vs. Inferiority. Teachers use literature to help with social skills/making friends; Erikson's stage of Industry vs. Inferiority is when elementary age children are looking to gain self-confidence and get the recognition of parents, teachers, and peers. They do that by making things like drawings and other things. So I think that by teaching those skills, by using literature, that once they learn those social skills they will be able to get more recognition from their peers and teachers because they will be more willing to reach out and try new things.

3. Children's literature could help children develop moral reasoning by the teacher reading stories with different circumstances. After reading the book, or even stopping during reading, the teacher could ask the students what they would do and then continue reading so they would know what/how the character of the book resolved the circumstance. This will help the students becuase if they encounter a problem or circumstance that they had previously read about, they will be able to look back on the book and react how they said they would or remember how the character dealt with it.

4. The children are having to think about someone elses problems, although they are really problems that they are dealing with or have dealt with, so they are using assimilation to help Mr. Stone with his questions. I also think that they students are looking at this letter and going back to things that they've experienced so they can feel how Mr. Stones daughter feels, disequilibrium. I think that this letter is a good idea because it's allowing the studendts to go back and think about things and then encorporate them with new ideas, of how they would handle the situation. It will be a useful thing when/as the students get older; they can use this in the future for school or anysituation.