Preschool category: 2281 books
Learning at Home, PreK–3
Homework Activities That Engage Children and Families
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Create a strong home-school connection through family activities that extend learning!
Packed with hundreds of engaging activities, this unique resource helps teachers plan developmentally appropriate, creative homework assignments that encourage positive learning experiences and reinforce...
The Littlest Learners
Preparing Your Child for Kindergarten
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
Littlest Learners connects the most recent research on emergent literacy, the skills necessary to become a reader and concrete activities that parents and caregivers can do to maximize their child’s reading readiness. The book is divided into 5 activities:
talking with young children
reading...
by Caroline Rickard
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
This book aims to support student teachers and current practitioners in teaching mathematics in effective and creative ways.
by Laurel Tanner
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Laurel Tanner examines closely the practices and policies of Dewey’s Laboratory School from their inception to the current day. Dewey’s Laboratory School: Lessons for Today provides a wealth of practical guidance on how schools today can introduce Deweyian reforms the way they were originally—and...
by Robert J. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
An engaging examination of current issues and practices involved in assessing young children
A highly readable integration of the latest assessment practices and policies, this text includes valuable information regarding young children with special needs and English language learners—topics...
Developing Arts Loving Readers
Top Ten Questions Teachers are Asking about Integrated Arts Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2002
Developing Arts Loving Readers is based on the premise that children can and do learn a great deal about the arts and their own abilities innately. Involvement and immersion author Nan. L. McDonald argues, are the ways in which children may feel welcome to write, move, create, draw, and otherwise...
by John Powell, Elaine Uppal
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
This book explores the role of early years practitioners both in relation to child protection and the wider responsibility of safeguarding.
Children Starting School
A Guide to Successful Transitions and Transfers for Teachers and Assistants
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Drawing on research, theory and practice, this book presents ways in which practitioners, working in partnership with parents, can give children a successful start to school.
Written in an accessible style, the book helps early years practitioners planning transition programs for new children...
Improving Services for Young Children
From Sure Start to Children's Centres
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
'This book is a welcome addition to the field of Early Childhood studies and would appeal to both students and professionals working with children and families in any area. The format of the book is clear and the style of writing is very readable and engaging' - ESCalate
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Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
This new edition provides a comprehensive guide for safeguarding and child protection in the early years. Aimed at both students and practitioners, it offers clear insight and guidance into the legal and policy foundations for effective safeguarding practice, together with both the historical context...
by Darlene Hardin
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
When I was a little girl, I loved playing school and of course, being the teacher. I was a playmates worst nightmare, as every time, we had to play school and I got to be the teacher. Relatives were definitely not exempt, including my baby brother. If I wasnt playing school, sometimes I enjoyed playing...
Boys and Girls
Superheroes in the Doll Corner
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
With the publication of Boys and Girls in 1984, Vivian Gussin Paley took readers inside a kindergarten classroom to show them how boys and girls play—and how, by playing and fantasizing in different ways, they work through complicated notions of gender roles and identity. The children’s own conversations,...
by Helen Penn
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Examining how quality and good practice in early childhood education and care is interpreted and implemented in a variety of settings and circumstances.
FirstSchool
Transforming PreK–3rd Grade for African American, Latino, and Low-Income Children
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
FirstSchool is a groundbreaking framework for teaching minority and low-income children. This work discusses the research and practice to date that defines FirstSchool as a critical approach to closing the achievement and opportunity gaps. Changing the conversation from improving test scores to improving...