Preschool category: 2281 books
Block Play
The Complete Guide to Learning and Playing with Blocks
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Every preschool and kindergarten classroom has a block corner. With over 50 great activities, Block Play is a must-have for every teacher. The activities encourage social skills, problem-solving, science, math, language, and more. Create craft-board trees, railroad tracks and skyscrapers, and watch children experience the joy of learning with blocks!
Everyday Discoveries
Amazingly Easy Science and Math Using Stuff You Already Have
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
Science and math concepts are embedded in the things children do every day. With this book, children learn the how, the why and the what happens next with these open-ended, self-directed activities. Everyday Discoveries shows how easily and naturally children can learn science and math in preschool programs, early primary classrooms, child care centers, and home care settings.
Everyone Needs Attention
Helping Young Children Thrive
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Attention seeking is seen as misbehavior in young children, and giving them the attention they need is often times interpreted as reinforcement of bad behavior. Everyone Needs Attention focuses on how we, as adults, manage our emotions when children seek our attention, including a "how-to" chapter...
Easy Daily Plans
Over 250 Plans for Preschool Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Easy Daily Plans has everything a teacher needs for a complete year's worth of daily plans! Organized by month, this great grab-and-use curriculum has over 250 daily plans that teachers can use to plan fun and enriching activities for young children. The beginning of each chapter lists month-long...
The Beginnings of School Readiness
Foundations of the Infant and Toddler Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Many families and educators are concerned with the school readiness skills that children acquire in preschool; however, they do not realize that these skills begin to develop during the infant and toddler years. Infant and toddler caregivers need to recognize the importance of a high-quality infant...
by National Center for Families Learning
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
An Introductory Teacher Guide for Early Language and Emergent Literacy Instruction
Based on the National Early Literacy Panel Report
The purpose of this guide is to help teachers understand the research reported in Developing Early Literacy: Report of the National Early Literacy Panel...
Early 3 Rs
How To Lead Beginners Into Reading, Writing, and Arithme-talk
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This practical, reader-friendly textbook for preservice and in-service early childhood education and early literacy courses provides "how-to-do-it" instructions for promoting emergent literacy in reading, writing, and arithmetic from preschool into the primary grades. Early 3 Rs answers...
Everyday Artists
Inquiry and Creativity in the Early Childhood Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
For the young child, art is a way of solving problems, conceptualizing the world, and creating new possibilities. In Everyday Artists, the author addresses the disconnect that exists between the teaching of art and the way young children actually experience art. In doing so, this book questions commonly...
by Alison Pepper
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Build the home-school connection to prepare for kindergarten! Studies show that parent and family involvement with school is an important factor in children’s later academic success. Many families of young children want to learn ways to support their little ones in preparing for and getting the...
by Susan A. Miller, EdD
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Preschoolers have a sense of wonder about so many aspects of their world. They enjoy demonstrating their knowledge to others, and they are challenged to use their brains in fascinating new ways every day. Whether they are making clay figures, rolling cars down ramps, experimenting with writing, or...
First Things First!
Creating the New American Primary School
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Challenging policymakers, educators, reformers, and citizens to replace piecemeal reforms with fundamental redesign, First Things First! calls for a different way of organizing the American primary school. Ruby Takanishi outlines a new framework for integrating early education with primary education...
by Sharolyn Pollard-Durodola Ed.D., Deborah Simmons Ph.D., Jorge Gonzalez Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Students in early childhood settings don't always get the benefits of shared book reading—a strategy proven to boost language skills and content knowledge. Prepare the next generation of teachers to make the most of shared reading with this accessible textbook, a complete guide to building vocabulary-rich...
Bubbles, Rainbows, and Worms
Science Experiments for Preschool Children
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
"Why did that happen?", "How does that work?", "What will happen if..?". Young children ask questions about the world around them all day long. They are filled with curiosity and the desire to learn. Bubbles, Rainbows, and Worms teaches children about the world using...
by Karrie Kalich, Lynn Arnold, Carole Russell
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Discover delicious new ways to provide healthy meals in preschool settings. Packed with more than seventy breakfast, lunch, snack, and special celebration recipes, this hands-on cookbook promotes the development of healthy eating habits in young children. Anchored by wholesome ingredients, these recipes...