Preschool category: 2281 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Bringing together prominent scholars, this book shows how 21st-century research and theory can inform everyday instructional practices in early childhood classrooms (PreK-3). Coverage includes foundational topics such as alphabet learning, phonological awareness, oral language development, and learning...
Developing Early Comprehension
Laying the Foundation for Reading Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
How does early comprehension develop in young children, and how can we better prepare preschoolers to become successful readers? This important volume compiles today's best research on the often-overlooked topic of prereader comprehension: what we know about it now, and what we need to know to build...
What Your Fifth Grader Needs to Know
Fundamentals of a Good Fifth-Grade Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
What should your child learn in the fifth grade? How can you help him or her at home? This book answers these important questions and more, offering the specific shared knowledge that thousands of parents and teachers across the nation have agreed upon for American fifth graders. Featuring sixteen...
What Your Preschooler Needs to Know
Get Ready for Kindergarten
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Give your child a smart start with What Your Preschooler Needs to Know
Designed for parents to enjoy with children, filled with opportunities for reading aloud and fostering curiosity, this beautifully illustrated anthology offers preschoolers the fundamentals they need to prepare for a happy,...
From Children's Services to Children's Spaces
Public Policy, Children and Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2005
More than ever before, children are apparently being recognised as social actors and citizens. Yet public policy often involves increased control and surveillance of children. This book explores the contradiction. It shows how different ways of thinking about children produce different childhoods,...
by Enzo Catarsi
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
The volume publishes some essays illustrating experiences which attempted to promote reading with very young children in nurseries and infant schools, as part of a project on the picture books by Eric Carle, a well-known American illustrator of children's books. In particular, this initiative took...
Health and Safety in Early Years and Childcare
Contextualising health and safety legislation within the Early Years Foundation Stage
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
This practical guide demystifies health and safety in early years settings with a step-by-step guide to the law, compliance and practical application. Bringing together health and safety legislation and the welfare requirements within the revised Early Years Foundation Stage 2012, it successfully...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
This edited book promotes thinking, dialogue, research and theorisation on multiple ways of making connections in mathematics teaching and learning in early childhood education.
The book addresses some key challenges in research, policy and practice in early childhood mathematics education....
Let's Build
Strong Foundations in Language, Math, Social Skills
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Blocks are a key teaching tool in any early childhood program. Through well-planned, teacher-supported block play experiences, young children can build math, language, and social skills. Let's Build provides educators of young children with guidance in how to create early childhood environments that...
The Complete Daily Curriculum for Early Childhood, Revised
Over 1200 Easy Activities to Support Multiple Intelligences and Learning Styles
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
There's more than one way to be smart! This award-winning curriculum for three- to six-year-olds offers a complete plan for every learning style. Revised and updated, the new edition of this classic bestseller is full of new activities based on the latest research about how children learn. Each activity...
Another Encyclopedia of Theme Activities for Young Children
Over 300 Favorite Activities Created by Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Actively engage children's imaginations with more than three hundred activities for young children organized into a variety of popular themes—from the alphabet to the weather. The result of a nationwide contest among teachers, the classroom-tested activities in Another Encyclopedia of Theme Activities...
Hands-On Learning!
More Than 1000 Activities for Young Children Using Everyday Objects
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Plan lessons from a child-centered perspective!
This innovative resource features more than 1,000 activities using inexpensive, readily available objects to engage young children’s senses and build their knowledge of the world through hands-on experiences. Organized into 16 themes and grouped...
Prop Box Play
50 Themes to Inspire Dramatic Play
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Think inside the (prop) box! Encourage dramatic play with props that inspire children and give them the freedom to play different roles while helping them cultivate important social skills for later in life. With 50 themes that inspire hours of fun and creativity, Prop Box Play includes lists of props, easy extensions, related vocabulary, and associated children's literature.
by Laura Laxton
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Curious kids will be inspired by the endless possibilities of the fifty fun-filled building activities in The Budding Builder! With great ways for you and your child to take ideas from their limitless imaginations and to fashion them into reality, this book shows parents and kids how to create a fairytale...