Example sentences of "opportunities for child " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Offering after-school play and leisure opportunities for children with nowhere to go .
2 Extra-curricular activities including sports , drama , music , chess and gym clubs provide further opportunities for children to gain new successes so boosting their self-confidence .
3 greater range of opportunities for children to succeed ;
4 Others such as the improvement in the status of women , or educational followed by enhanced employment opportunities for children particularly to disadvantaged and poor sections , are much more difficult to achieve ( Cassen 1980 ) .
5 There are many incidental opportunities for children to need to put objects in one-to-one correspondence .
6 At this stage , however , we can offer many opportunities for children to arrange and re-arrange the objects in a set and see whether they need to re-count each time .
7 Smelser argues that male trade-union agitation against married women 's employment after the 1830s was due to the enforced decline of employment opportunities for children and hence the need for an adult presence in a newly constituted home life .
8 We need to see teaching , therefore , not as the transmission of pre-existing knowledge to passive recipients , but rather as the provision of opportunities for children to continue to exercise their in-built drive actively to make sense of their experience and , thereby , to gain understanding of , and control over , the world in which they live .
9 How can the time and opportunities for children to engage in these tasks be maximized ?
10 We argued for a more discriminating balance of questions , statements and instructions ; for fewer pseudo-questions and more questions of a kind which encourage children to reason and speculate ; for more opportunities for children themselves to ask their own questions and have these addressed ; for oral feedback to children which without being negative is more exact and informative than mere praise ; for both questioning and feedback to strike a balance between the retrospective function of assessing and responding to what has been learned so far , and the prospective function of taking the child 's learning forward ; and for much more use to be made of structured pupil-pupil interaction both as a learning tool and as a means of helping teachers to function in a more considered manner and therefore more effectively .
11 Also , there are big differences between social classes and regions in this country in terms of the opportunities for children to survive .
12 Before the coming of the cotton mill there were few opportunities for children to make a steady monetary contribution to family earnings .
13 A well-constructed drama session will also create opportunities for children to develop their own questioning skills .
  Next page