Preschool Kindergarten category: 2281 books
Count on Math
Activities for Small Hands and Lively Minds
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
The activities in this book reflect children's real world math experiences--counting candles on a birthday cake, sorting and classifying toys, making sure there is a one-to-one correspondence between children and cookies. Children learn spatial relationships, patterning, shapes, numeration, and many...
The Complete Resource Book for Infants
Over 700 Experiences for Children from Birth to 18 Months
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
The Complete Resource Book for Infants is a collection of experiences and activities that maximize learning and development for children from birth to eighteen months. The ideas are organized by developmental area: language, social-emotional, physical, and cognitive, which are the essential building...
Starting with Stories
Engaging Multiple Intelligences Through Children's Books
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Featuring one hundred well-loved and easily available children’s books, Starting with Stories has more than 1,500 activities to actively engage every learning style. This literature-based resource book combines quality children’s books, learning centers, and multiple intelligences to give teachers a comprehensive, creative curriculum.
And the Cow Jumped Over the Moon
Over 650 Activities to Teach Toddlers Using Familiar Rhymes and Songs
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Toddlerhood, the age from 12 months to 3 years, is the most fertile time of life for acquiring and understanding the elements of language. With more than 250 songs, rhymes, and chants, this book is a fun way to enrich toddlers’ language experiences. By incorporating songs, chants, and rhymes into...
by Pam Schiller, PhD, Patricia Carter Dyke
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
The Practical Guide to Quality Child Care is a uniquely comprehensive manual for administrators who manage child care facilities. This clear and easy-to-read handbook provides specific guidelines for virtually every aspect of early childhood administration. Its sample criteria, procedures for program...
Do You Know the Muffin Man?
Literacy Activities Using Favorite Rhymes and Songs
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Rhyme, rhythm, and music are essential parts of a quality early childhood program. The authors of the perennial favorite, Where is Thumbkin? have created activities children will love to accompany the 250 rhymes and songs in this invaluable new literacy book. Children learn letter recognition, vocabulary,...
Early Childhood Play Matters
International Teaching Through Play: Birth to 6 Years
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Play-based learning has long been a means of facilitating teaching and learning in the early childhood years. The Walker Learning Approach, an Australian-designed, evidence-based play pedagogy, provides a solid base and foundation for intentional and responsive teaching in the early years. The program’s...
Applied Behavior Analysis in Early Childhood Education
An Introduction to Evidence-based Interventions and Teaching Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Applied Behavior Analysis in Early Childhood Education provides a basic introduction to applied behavior analysis and the highly beneficial role that it can play in early childhood education for both typically developing children and those with special needs. The objective is to provide future and...
by Robbin Miller
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
EJ meets a new friend at Playgroup today who cries on his first day. Through a few mishaps and itty bitty adventures, EJ demonstrates how much fun it is to make new friends and to have fun.
STEM Play
Integrating Inquiry into Learning Centers
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Most early childhood teachers are using learning centers in the classroom, but do not approach them in ways that fully support a variety of learning opportunities. This book approaches learning centers through the STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) lens, and shares how themes can be...
Children's Reading of Film and Visual Literacy in the Primary Curriculum
A Progression Framework Model
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2017
This book draws on a longitudinal study which highlights the beneficial impact of film in the primary curriculum. It provides detailed accounts of both the reading process as understood within the field of literacy education, and of film theory as it relates to issues such as narration, genre and...
Literacy Playshop
New Literacies, Popular Media, and Play in the Early Childhood Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Building on her award-winning research (featured in Playing Their Way into Literacies) which emphasizes that play is an early literacy, Wohlwend has developed a curricular framework for children ages 3 to 8. The Literacy Playshop curriculum engages children in creating their own multimedia productions,...
Literature, Pedagogy, and Curriculum in Secondary Education
Examples from France
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
This book argues for the importance of literature studies using the historical debate between the disinterested disciplines (“art for art’s sake”) and utilitarian or productive disciplines. Forgoing the traditional argument that literature is a unique spiritual resource, as well as the utilitarian...
by Vivian Maria Vasquez, Carol Branigan Felderman
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
What do new technologies and new forms of communication mean for young children growing up in the 21st century? How are they shaping the mindsets, identities and practices which impact their lives at home and at school? This book explores the intersection of technology and critical literacy, specifically...