Preschool Kindergarten category: 2281 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Creative teaching as well as teaching creativity are cutting edge issues in psychology today as recent academic and popular media coverage has shown. This volume expands on that interest with chapter authors drawn from interdisciplinary areas. It includes examples of creatively teaching across the...
Wild About Literacy
Fun Activities for Preschool
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The more than 150 activities in Wild About Literacy feature theme connections, vocabulary, materials and preparation, and extension ideas. Each chapter follows a literacy scope and sequence so teachers can use a targeted approach to help children learn essential literacy skills. With learning centers and story ideas, Wild About Literacy is sure to enrich any curriculum.
Jump into Math
Active Learning for Preschool Children
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Jump into Math is the perfect way to turn children's love of active games into learning opportunities! The activities in each chapter are organized by level of difficulty, and each one incorporates fun, exciting math experiences with movement. Most activities require few or no materials and include...
Teaching in the Digital Age
Smart Tools for Age 3 to Grade 3
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Technology is rapidly changing the ways we live our lives and interact with the world. It’s also changing how you teach. Technology can enhance your classroom’s complete curriculum and assessment and help you create and capture meaningful experiences, support inquiry, and expand your classroom’s...
When Pre-K Comes to School
Policy, Partnerships, and the Early Childhood Education Workforce
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
When Pre-K Comes to School traces what happens—for institutions and teachers—when a school district and community ECE centers partner to provide public pre-K. Wilinski examines policy implementation across diverse sites—a private part-day preschool, a corporate childcare center,...
The Instant Curriculum, Revised
Over 750 Developmentally Appropriate Learning Activities for Busy Teachers of Young Children
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
The Instant Curriculum is now completely revised and features over 350 all-new activities! This classic resource is a must-have for preschool teachers, and has activities for every area of the curriculum, including language and literacy, math, science, dramatic play, and music and movement.
by Pam Schiller, PhD, Clarissa Willis
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Best-selling, award-winning authors Pam Schiller and Clarissa Willis have teamed up to create this collection of 100 literacy lessons, designed to introduce children ages 3-6 to a variety of literacy concepts and build important literacy skills. Each of these simple, fun lessons offers adaptations...
Jump into Literacy
Active Learning for Preschool Children
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Jump into Literacy combines children's love of active games with over 100 lively literacy activities. Written by a well-known children's movement specialist, these joyful games will engage the whole child in moving and playing as a way to develop the literacy skills needed for reading and writing....
by Sharla Kostelyk
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Sensory bins are a simple and inexpensive learning tool that can benefit all children. Whether you are interested in incorporating sensory bins into your home, classroom, preschool, Day Care, or homeschool, this guide will provide you the necessary knowledge and ideas to get started. It includes...
Bad Guys Don't Have Birthdays
Fantasy Play at Four
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
Bad guys are not allowed to have birthdays, pick blueberries, or disturb the baby. So say the four-year-olds who announce life's risks and dangers as they play out the school year in Vivian Paley's classroom.
Their play is filled with warnings. They invent chaos in order to show that everything...
A Chance for Change
Head Start and Mississippi's Black Freedom Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
In this innovative study, Crystal Sanders explores how working-class black women, in collaboration with the federal government, created the Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM) in 1965, a Head Start program that not only gave poor black children access to early childhood education but also...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
This book brings together a collection of research-based papers on current issues in early childhood mathematics education that were presented in the Topic Study Group 1 (TSG 1) at the 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-13), held at the University of Hamburg in 2016. It will...
Introducing Malaguzzi
Exploring the life and work of Reggio Emilia’s founding father
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Loris Malaguzzi is recognised as the founder of the extraordinary programmes of preschool education that developed after the war in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Deeply embedded in the cultures and communities they serve, these unique preschools have justifiably become famous throughout the world.
In...
Bambini
The Italian Approach to Infant/Toddler Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This volume is a timely contribution to the burgeoning dialogue on the Reggio Emilia approach, and features the work of prominent scholars, policy-makers, researchers, administrators, and practicing teachers who have created and directed the infant-toddler care systems in four cities in Italy. Joined...