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by Cynthia Lapeña (Author)
Do you need ideas for how to present a new lesson ? Are you running out of ways to induce students to analyze new knowledge? Do you want fun ways to reinforce learning? Then Volume 3: Discovering New Things is just the book for you This volume provides games and activities that can be used to present new lessons, to illustrate and elucidate lessons, and to provide fun opportunities for applying lessons learned. Most of the games and activities require analysis or parts in relation to the whole and to context. The games and activities reinforce learning because students are made to do or demonstrate what they have learned.
Author Biography
Cynthia Lapeña began writing when she was a very young child and wrote for school publications throughout her youth. Her literary works center mainly around poetry and some short fiction, besides numerous essays and academic papers. She is an avid reader of fiction and has always dreamed of publishing novels. She recently completed her first novel, The Lost Amulets, which she entered in the online Next Best Author Contest. Since she migrated to Canada in 2007, she has written several reviews for onrpei.ca and maintains a blog (mimrlith.wordpress.com) where she shares poetry, essays, art and other random works and ideas. Before that, she had written several educational and academic texts, as well as a full-length play that won 3rd prize in the Philippines's prestigious Carlos Palanca National Awards for Literature in 2007. She has also been a teacher of writing and communication and holds a Master of Arts in English Literature. As an educator, she believes that teachers must engage the minds of students, no matter what age, and throughout her 20+ years of teaching, she has constantly striven to create engaging and fun lessons, because she really believes that learning must always be fun! She is a member of the Prince Edward Island Writers' Group and actively writes with the group PEI Writes. She likewise circulates the PEIWG Weekly, a newsletter mainly for Atlantic Canadian writers, that provides weekly updates on the latest in literary news, events, contests, and workshops. Visit Cynthia's blog at www.mimrlith.wordpress.com or her Facebook Page at https: //www.facebook.com/pages/Cindy-Lapeña/ Follow her on Twitter @mimrlith
