Redleaf Press: 191 books
SAFE and Fun Playgrounds
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Play is important for cognitive, emotional, and physical development of children. Use the four components experts have identified for safety: supervision, age-appropriate design, fall-surfacing that contains approved materials, and equipment maintenance.
This handbook is what you need to maintain...
by Emily Plank
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
View the culture of childhood through a whole new lens. Identify age-based bias and expand your outlook on and understanding of early childhood as a culture. Examine various elements of childhood culture: language, belief economics, arts, and social structure to understand children's dispositions...
Teaching STEM Outdoors
Activities for Young Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
First outdoor STEM book
Filled with practical suggestions, ideas, and resources for implementing STEM activities outdoors
Uses STEM strategy responsive to the developmental needs of young children
Incorporates STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) and outdoor learning—two...
Dribble Drabble
Process Art Experiences for Young Children
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Process art is a hot and trending topic in early childhood education
Uses different types of media including painting, crayons, collage and sculpture, modeling materials, chalk, and printing
145 high-quality, classroom-tested, hands-on, process-oriented art activities
Activities...
by Connie Jo Smith, Charlotte M. Hendricks, Becky S. Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
As young children become aware of their bodies, they can begin to appreciate and care for their health. Encourage children to feel good about their bodies, prevent the spread of diseases, and gain a measure of independence and control in their lives with this Body Care curriculum. Children will understand...
Parent Engagement in Early Learning
Strategies for Working with Families
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
This second edition of Parent-Friendly Early Learning brings to life real scenarios that care providers face in today's world. We know parent engagement is important for a child's success, but how do you turn parent-provider relationships into partnerships? Learn how to improve parent-teacher communication,...
When Young Children Need Help
Understanding and Addressing Emotional, Behavorial, and Developmental Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
This story-based book provides a framework to help early childhood professionals understand a range of emotional (like a child with dark moods or intense shyness), behavioral (such as a high-energy/low-focus or easily frustrated child), and developmental (including communication struggles) challenges...
by Connie Jo Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
25% new content
Addresses how to respond to 12 common behavioral challenges such as aggression, defiance, tantrums, separation anxiety, and more
Updated resources and research
36 new strategies to work with behavioral challenges
A quick guide to work through behavioral challenges
Make Early Learning Standards Come Alive
Connecting Your Practice and Curriculum to State Guidelines
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Early childhood education has become part of a standards-based environment. A large and growing body of research supports the critical relationship between high-quality early education and later academic and social competence. By defining the desired content and outcomes of young children’s education,...
Making It Better
Activities for Children Living in a Stressful World
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Unfortunately, traumatic and stressful events are a part of many young children’s lives. With nearly 20,000 copies of the first edition (ISBN 978-1-884834-26-4) in print, this is a popular resource for guidance counselors, law enforcement, and teachers caring for children who have experienced traumatic...
Teaching STEM in the Early Years
Activities for Integrating Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
This book is for preschool, pre-kindergarten, and kindergarten classroom teachers.
This book can be course adopted in preschool and kindergarten curriculum instruction and early education methods courses in math and science.
In recent years, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and...
Everyday Early Learning
Easy and Fun Activities and Toys Made from Stuff You Can Find Around the House
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2008
Children can pluck an elastic band to learn about the vibrations that create music, or they can bake a cake to learn measurement and reading skills.
Everyday Early Learning provides a myriad of ways to use everyday items for great early learning opportunities. For each activity, the book lists...
Discovering Nature with Young Children
Part of the Young Scientist Series
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2003
Project funded by the National Science Foundation. No Child Left Behind national education legislation has science standards as a requirement, so teachers of young children will be interested. Field tested activities
Building Brains
600 Activity Ideas for Young Children
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Building Brains expands young children's learning with six hundred brain-based, developmentally appropriate activity ideas. It combines the latest information on brain development with activities that support children's learning and enrich any early childhood curriculum. Rather than step-by-step activities,...