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Willy the Wisher and Other Thinking Stories
Willy the Wisher and Other Thinking Stories Author:Carl Bereiter Willy the Wisher is a very special kind of book for parents and children to enjoy together. It consists of numerous short fables about eight funny, loveable characters who are plagued with curious foibles (bearing an amazing similarity to troubles children often have). In the body of each story are a number of interesting problem solving q... more »uestions for the child to answer.
This is an excellent book for teaching/reading to children with language or social impairments. The stories repeatedly use characters endowed with typical language difficulties such as those encountered by language-disorded children -- e.g. using vague language; making illogical guesses; not using strategies to remember what someone has said, etc. Each story has questions throughout the text which are meant to be asked at that specific point in the story.« less