Preschool category: 2281 books
Inclusive Play
Practical Strategies for Children from Birth to Eight
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
This extremely practical and child-focused book gives you the tools you need to make sure all the children in your care are included and involved in the play opportunities of your setting.
Inside the second edition, new content includes:
- consideration of the early years curricula across...
Listening to Young Children, Expanded Third Edition
A Guide to Understanding and Using the Mosaic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Viewing children as 'experts in their own lives', the Mosaic approach offers a creative framework for understanding young children's perspectives through talking, walking, making and reviewing material with an adult. This book demonstrates how children's views and experiences can stay in focus in...
Making Toys for School Age Children
Using Ordinary Stuff for Extraordinary Play
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
In this series, you'll find more creative ways to use a tube sock, milk carton, and other inexpensive things found around the house than you ever imagined. Create unique toys to inspire play through art, outdoor play, dramatic play and more.
Rain Forest
Book 2
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Optimized for Tablets Take an unforgettable adventure into The Rain Forest where children discover amazing animals and their secret letters hidden in the forest. The remarkable graphics set the scene for adventure. The story sparks a child’s imagination and curiosity about the animals in the rain forest....
Transforming Children's Spaces
Children's and Adults' Participation in Designing Learning Environments
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
How can young children play an active role in developing the design of learning environments?
What methods can be used to bring together children’s and practitioners’ views about their environment?
What insights can young children offer into good designs for these children’s spaces?
With...
Young Children as Artists
Art and Design in the Early Years and Key Stage 1
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
From the moment a child is born, they interact with the sensory world, looking at colours, feeling textures; constructing mental and physical images of what they see and experience. Within all early years settings and into primary school, the aim for the practitioner, is to provide as many opportunities...
Teaching Thinking Skills Across the Early Years
A Practical Approach for Children Aged 4 - 7
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This book helps teachers incorporate problem-solving and thinking skills into the National Curriculum at the Foundation Phase and Key Stage 1, in line with QCA and DfES recommendations. It presents a range of activities for children aged 4-7 years, all of which have been tried and tested in classrooms....
Professor Frisky von Onion Bagel, S.D. (Super Doggy)
Volume I of 4, a 12 eBook Children's Collection
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2007
My Special Friend: Tells when an old man first meets a dog, who we will later learn was Super Doggy. The Story of Professor Frisky von Onion Bagel, S.D. and Gravity Free University: Introduces Super Doggy and give background on his schooling and life. Professor Frisky von Onion Bagel, S.D. (Super Doggy) Tells the Story of the Bagel: Professor Frisky tells how thw bagel was actually invented.
by Janet Rose, Louise Gilbert, Val Richards
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
The health and well-being of children is integral to learning and development but what does it actually mean in practice?
This textbook draws on contemporary research on the brain and mind to provide an up-to-date overview of the central aspects of young children’s health and well-being –...
by Jillian Rodd
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Leading Change in the Early Years focuses on the type of leadership skill needed for leading the reform and change agendas that challenge the early years sector.
The Multiple Identities of the Reception Teacher
Pedagogy and Purpose
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
The Reception Year is a special time for children and their teachers.
This text celebrates the uniqueness of the Reception Year and the unique role of the Reception Teacher. This is a book for those aspiring to be reception teachers, those new to teaching in reception and for those with a love...
How Children Learn
The Characteristics of Effective Early Learning
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
What children learn is important but how children learn is even more important if they are to become learners for life in today's society. In this book, Nancy Stewart brings her wealth of experience to help policy makers and practitioners articulate the importance of early childhood as a valuable stage...
Early Childhood Education and Care
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
'The book gives excellent insight of current Early Years topics by covering international educational approaches and discussing the need to professionalise the sector. It is suitable for students on Early Childhood Studies programme, EYPS, and Early Years Foundation Degrees.' - Eva Mikuska, Senior...
Integrated Working with Children and Young People
Supporting Development from Birth to Nineteen
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
This interdisciplinary core textbook looks at learning and development from birth to 19 years providing, an accessible introduction to the common areas of study across the many roles supporting learning and development in the young people's workforce. There is coverage of common themes and issues,...