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First Art : Art Experiences for Toddlers and Twos

By: MaryAnn F. Kohl, Renee F. Ramsey, Dana Bowman, Katheryn Davis

Gryphon House

Art can be fun and easy, rewarding and a wonderful learning experience. Toddlers and Twos discover their world as they explore the 75 fun filled art activities. This resource book starts young children on a journey of exploration and creativity. Paperback. 160 pages.

My First Book Of Cutting (Kumon Workbooks)

By: Shinobu Akaishi

Kumon Publishing North America

The My First Book of Cutting show how to help develop manual dexterity through cutting. Ages: 3, 4, 5 Manufacturer: Marlon Creations

What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know: Preparing Your Child for a Lifetime of Learning (Core Know...

By: E.D. Hirsch Jr.

Delta

With its comprehensive curriculum providing a sound basis in the fundamentals of math, art, history, language arts, science, and technology, the phenomenally successful Core Knowledge series has becom

The Encyclopedia of Infant and Toddler Activities: Written by Teachers for Teachers

Gryphon House

Over 300 activities covering developmental areas such as language, sensory, cognitive, social-emotional, and motor skills. Approved by children and teachers alike, this book will captivate children's imaginations and create wonderful opportunities for learning and fun! Paperback. 192 pages.

What Your Preschooler Needs to Know: Get Ready for Kindergarten (Core Knowledge Series)

By: Core Knowledge Foundation

Delta

Prepare your child for a lifetime of learning and wonder.

Designed for parents to enjoy with children, filled with opportunities for reading aloud and fostering curiosity, this beautifully illustrated read-aloud anthology offers preschoolers the fundamentals they need to prepare for a happy, productive time in schooland for the rest of their lives. Millions of children have benefited from the acclaimed Core Knowledge Series, developed in consultation with parents, educators, and the most distinguished developmental psychologists. In addition to valuable advice to parents, including what it means for a child to be ready for kindergarten, special sidebars throughout the book help parents make reading aloud fun and interactive, suggesting questions to ask, connections to make, and g...

My Book Of Simple Addition

By: Kumon Workbooks

Kumon Publishing North America

The first concepts of addition. Ages: 4, 5, 6 Manufacturer: Marlon Creations

Teach Me to Do It Myself: Montessori Activities for You and Your Child

By: Maja Pitamic

Barron's Educational Series

Based on the key Montessori principle that children learn best through active experience, Teach Me to Do It Myself presents simple activities through which children explore and develop their skills. These skill areas include sensory perceptions, body coordination, language, understanding of numbers, and movement. This practical, color-illustrated parenting book is filled with activities and instructions for overseeing children as they carry out a variety of learning activities. Most activities will seem simple to parents, because once mastered, adults perform them automatically. However, toddlers experience a sense of accomplishment and self-worth when they learn to perform them independently. The many activities start with dressing and personal hygiene, then go on to include . ....

School Finance: A Policy Perspective

By: Allan Odden, Lawrence Picus

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

School Finance is a core text for all masters and doctoral level students of educational administration that - in addition to a clear and concise presentation of the subject - offers unique computer simulations in which students can apply school finance formulas to better understand the real-world consequences of decisions and allocations.

25 Read & Write Mini-Books That Teach Word Families

By: Nancy Sanders, Anne Kennedy

Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching

Help children build essential reading skills with this collection of adorable mini-storybooks that give them practice reading and writing words from 25 different word families. Includes ready-to-photocopy pages and extension activities. 64 pages.

Literacy for the 21st Century: A Balanced Approach (5th Edition)

By: Gail E. Tompkins

Prentice Hall

The market leader in literacy education, Literacy for the 21^st Century: A Balanced Approach continues to evolve to meet the needs of a changing world. Crafted for the undergraduate K-8 literacy course, this comprehensive and thoroughly applied text continues to cover the information new and experienced teachers need to know to teach literacy effectively, and follows this information with the specific strategies to use in the classroom to develop successful readers and writers. Integrating the best of what we know about teaching reading and writing, and implementing the ideas that will lead us into the future of education, the fifth edition provides the balance new and experienced teachers need to be successful in the classroom.

Nonfiction Craft Lessons: Teaching Information Writing K-8

By: JoAnn Portalupi, Ralph Fletcher

Stenhouse Publishers

By JoAnn Portalupi and Ralph Fletcher. Learn how to help students overcome their frustrations about nonfiction writing by helping them scaffold their ideas. The 80 lessons focus on the genres that are most appropriate for particular age groups--including concept books, biography, and expository writing. Like the author's best-selling Craft Lessons (above), each lesson features the same three teaching guidelines, tailored to nonfiction contexts: Discussion, How to Teach It, and Resource Materials.160 pages. Grades K-8.

The Complete Daily Curriculum for Early Childhood: Over 1200 Easy Activities to Support Multiple ...

By: Pam Schiller, Pat Phipps

Gryphon House

Because there?s more than one way to be smart! This innovative book for three- to six-year-olds offers a complete plan for every learning style. Organized by theme, The Daily Curriculum includes a morning circle and end-of-day reflection, and different activities for each learning center. With over 1200 activities and ideas to engage multiple intelligences, assessment tools, and a comprehensive appendix of songs, stories, games and dances, props, recipes, patterns, chants, rhymes, and arts and crafts, you?ll find everything you need to captivate and challenge every child in your classroom.

Theories of Childhood: An Introduction to Dewey, Montessori, Erikson, Piaget & Vygotsky

By: Carol Garhart Mooney

Redleaf Press

Find solutions and guidance in your classroom today by looking at the theoretical foundations of early childhood care. An intensive look at the ideas of five groundbreaking educational theorists, Theories of Childhood examines the work of John Dewey, Maria Montessori, Erik Erikson, Jean Piaget, and Lev Vygotsky in relation to early childhood. Each theorist's ideas are presented to help teachers and students look to the theoretical foundations of early childhood care for solutions and guidance in classrooms today.

An easy-to-learn overview of the theorist opens each chapter. Author Carol Garhart Mooney then distills their work to reveal how it relates to child care and children. Dewy examines the realtionship of curriculum to life; Montessori, the need for carefully prepared classroo...

Preschool Basics

By: School Zone Publishing Company

School Zone Pub

This package contains (1) 32 page workbook with a lesson page that builds on the previous pages, building the knowledge and confidence of the young student with simple instructions and fun illustrations. Learning couldn't be easier. Available in a variety of comparison, counting, sounds, recognition lessons and more, each sold separately. Made in USA.

Comprehensive Curriculum of Basic Skills, Kindergarten (Comprehensive Curriculum.)

By: Carson-Dellosa Publishing

American Education Publishing

Designed by experts in education, this best-selling workbook features vivid and full-color illustrations to guide children step-by-step through a variety of engaging and developmentally appropriate activities in phonics, reading, reading comprehension, language arts, writing, and math. Answer keys included. 544 pp.

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Easy-to-understand samples and directions

The Creative Curriculum for Infants, Toddlers, and Twos

By: Diane Trister Dodge, Sherrie Rudick, Kai lee Berke

Teaching Stategies Inc.

The Creative Curriculum for Infants, Toddlers & Twos helps teachers appreciate and find joy in the everyday discoveries that delight a child-the sound a rattle makes; the leaves blowing in circles by the wind; the ball that unexpectedly rolls across a child's path; the ants marching across the pavement. It is a comprehensive curriculum that helps teachers achieve the very best program for children under three. If the interactions children have are nurturing, consistent, and loving, and the experiences they have are appropriately challenging, then infants, toddlers, and twos grow and flourish. In such an environment, children learn to trust and joyfully explore their surroundings, making discoveries and developing a sense of themselves as competent learners and caring human beings.

Science is Simple: Over 250 Activities for Preschoolers

By: Peggy Ashbrook

Gryphon House

Great resource book with 250 activities spanning 39 concepts. From magnets to bubbles, children will be excited to learn about science and the role it plays in their lives. 255 pages.

How to Choose the Best Preschool for Your Child: The Ultimate Guide to Finding, Getting Into, and...

By: Jenifer Wana

Sourcebooks

"The most useful tool out there for families about to embark on the search for a preschool!"
-Helen Cohen, director, Frances Jacobson Early Childhood Center, Boston

A must-have for parents of future preschoolers

Starting preschool is one of the biggest milestones in a child's life. With this comprehensive, step-by-step guide, you won't have to navigate the preschool process alone. Whether the nursery schools nearby enroll every child, or they're so competitive that they only accept a few applicants, this book has everything you need to know to choose and get into the right preschool for your child. You'll learn:

• How to find high-quality preschools in your area
• Insight into popular preschool programs...

Tools of the Mind: The Vygotskian Approach to Early Childhood Education (2nd Edition)

By: Elena Bodrova, Deborah J. Leong

Prentice Hall

As the only text of its kind, this book provides in-depth information about Vygotsky's theories, neo-Vygotskians' findings, and concrete explanations and strategies that instruct teachers how to influence student learning and development. Key changes to this edition include a new chapter on dynamic assessment, separate and expanded chapters on developmental accomplishments of infants and toddlers, preschool/kindergarten, and primary grades and on supporting those accomplishments, and elaborations of Vygotsky's ideas from neo-Vygotskians from Russia.

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Differentiated Literacy Centers: 85 + Leveled Activities-With Reproducible Planning Sheets and St...

By: Margo Southall

Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching

Developing leveled materials and creating an organizational system to manage it all is an immense undertaking. In this comprehensive resource, veteran teacher and staff developer Margo Southall shares management tools along with hundreds of leveled activities that she has fine-tuned over the years. The result is an invaluable collection of research-based activities that enable teachers to match independent practice with students' needs in reading comprehension, fluency, word study, and writing. Moreover, Southall provides a workable framework that makes setting up the centers and tracking student progress simple. Includes dozens of planning sheets and record-keeping forms in addition to reproducible student pages. Meets Reading First and NCLB guidelines. 224 pages.

Creative Resources for the Early Childhood Classroom

By: Judy Herr

Wadsworth Publishing

Creative Resource for the Early Childhood Classroom 5th edition is a theme based curriculum planner containing 70 different themes ranging from Ants to Zoo Animals. Each theme contains: Curriculum Web, Theme Goals, Concepts for the Children to Learn, Vocabulary, Bulletin Board, Parent Letter, Music, Fingerplay, Science, Math, Dramatic Play, Arts and Crafts, Sensory, Large Muscle, Small Muscle, Field Trips, Social Studies, Group Time, Cooking, Transitions, Books, Multimedia, Recordings and Song Titles. The book sections at the end of each theme have been revised with older ones deleted and hundreds added. In addition, an accompanying CD-Rom will contain important assessment tools, lesson plan forms, evaluation forms for documentation boards and many more.

Testing for Kindergarten: Simple Strategies to Help Your Child Ace the Tests for: Public School P...

By: Karen Quinn

Fireside

BY THE AGE OF 5, MOST CHILDREN IN AMERICA WILL TAKE SOME KIND OF INTELLIGENCE TEST.

Whether your child is going to a private kindergarten or a public school, he or she will most likely be testedand placed in classrooms according to those results. But information about intelligence tests is closely guarded, and it can be difficult to understand what your kids need to know.

As an expert who has successfully taught hundreds of parents how to work with their own children, Karen Quinn has written the ultimate guide to preparing your child for kindergarten testing. The activities she suggests are not about "teaching to the test." They are about having fun while teaching to the underlying abilities every test assesses.

From the "right" way to have a conversation to na...

The New Kindergarten: Teaching Reading, Writing, & More

By: Constance Leuenberger

Teaching Resources

Filled with creative and effective ideas for teaching kindergaten. Includes: start-the-year community builders, stratagies for classroom routines, mini-lessons on shared reading and writing, activities that build phonemic awareness and phonics skills, samples of student work, and much more.

The Complete Resource Book for Preschoolers: An Early Childhood Curriculum With Over 2000 Activit...

By: Pam Schiller, Kay Hastings

Gryphon House

This resource supplies 25 two-week themes, with a total of over 2,000 activities and ideas. Paperback, 463 pages.

Transition Time: Let's Do Something Different

By: Jean Feldman

Gryphon House

by Jean Feldman. Over 400 ideas to make those 'between times' teachable moments and smooth transitions with simple and fun activities. 288 pages.

Safety, Nutrition and Health in Early Education

By: Cathie Robertson

Wadsworth Publishing

SAFETY, NUTRITION, AND HEALTH IN EARLY EDUCATION, Fourth Edition, prepares students for a career in early childhood education through a combination of basic information and theory, practical applications, resources, and coverage of cultural competence. Emphasizing the realities of working with children, the book covers the four major subject areas--safety, nutrition, health, and special topics--and includes vignettes, checklists, and case studies. This thoroughly updated fourth edition includes new Early Childhood Rating Scales (ECER-S), expanded information on younger elementary school age children, and simplified coverage of CPR and is designed throughout to help students build their understanding of cultural competence in working with children and families from diverse backgrounds. C...

Health, Safety, and Nutrition for the Young Child, 7th Edition

By: Lynn R Marotz, Jeanettia M. Rush

Wadsworth Publishing

Health, Safety and Nutrition for the Young Child, 7th edition covers the contemporary health, safety and nutrition needs of infant through school-age children in one comprehensive volume, with extensive coverage of topics critical to the early identification of children's health conditions and the promotion of children's well-being. Concepts are backed by the latest research findings. Collaboration with families, sensitivity to individual differences and the critical importance of health, safety and nutrition education continue to be stressed. This time-proven book is written in a clear, concise and thought-provoking manner and is loaded with easy-to-access checklists, guidelines and lesson plans that no early childhood student or professional should be without!

The Continuum of Literacy Learning, Grades K-8: A Guide to Teaching

By: Gay Su Pinnell, Irene C. Fountas

Heinemann

50 Month-by-Month Draw & Write Prompts: Engaging Reproducibles That Invite Young Learners To Draw...

By: Danielle Blood

Teaching Resources

Engaging Reproducibles That Invite Young Learners To Draw & Then Write About Topics They Love -- All Year Round.\n\nBy Danielle Blood\n\nMotivate Reluctant Writers.\nMotivate your students to write with fun-filled reproducibles for every month. Each reproducible pairs a drawing prompt with quick writing prompts on favorite topics: autumn harvest animals 100th day holidays weather classroom community and more. As a pre-writing warm-up drawing pictures sparks kids' interest helps them generate ideas and details for writing and makes their subjects lively and real.\n\n64 pages 8.5'' x 11''\nGrades K-2

White Teacher: Second Edition

By: Vivian Gussin Paley

Harvard University Press

Vivian Paley presents a moving personal account of her experiences teaching kindergarten in an integrated school within a predominantly white, middle-class neighborhood. In a new preface, she reflects on the way that even simple terminology can convey unintended meanings and show a speaker's blind spots. She also vividly describes what her readers have taught her over the years about herself as a "white teacher."

The GIANT Encyclopedia of Lesson Plans for Children 3 to 6: More Than 250 Lesson Plans Created by...

Gryphon House

This newest addition to the best-selling GIANT Encyclopedia series expands the scope of the series by offering complete lesson plans. Written and created by teachers, The GIANT Encyclopedia of Lesson Plans has more than 250 complete lesson plans, covering topics from colors and numbers to seasons and nursery rhymes. Each lesson plan is complete with learning objectives, a circle or group time activity, book suggestions, snack ideas, five learning center activities, assessment strategies, and related songs, poems, and fingerplays. With easy-to-use lesson plans for more than an entire school year, this book belongs on every teacher's bookshelf!

The Scholastic Teacher Plan Book Updated

By: Bill Singer

Teaching Resources

SHS0439710561 Deluxe planner with extra-large planning pages, sturdy storage pockets and time-saving teaching resource pages. Edition Year: N/A; Global Product Type: Teacher''s Lesson Planners & Class Record Books; Reference Book Type: Supplementary Material; Calendar Term: N/A.PRODUCT DETAILS: -Reference Book Type: Supplementary Material. -Age Recommendation: Grades K-6. -Global Product Type: Teacher's Lesson Planners & Class Record Books. -Post-Consumer Recycled Content Percent : 0 pct. -Pre-Consumer Recycled Content Percent : 0 pct. -Number of Pages : 96. -Total Recycled Content Percent : 0 pct.

Complete Year in Reading and Writing: Kindergarten: Daily Lessons - Monthly Units - Yearlong Cale...

By: Karen McNally, Pam Allyn

Scholastic Teaching Resources (Theory an

Daily Lessons - Monthly Units - Yearlong Calendar\n\nBy Karen McNally\n\nEach grade level author is a master teacher, who works with Pam Allyn through Litlife.\n- Grade-specific books that take all the guess work out of teaching reading and writing.\n- Each book provides a detailed curricular calendar tied to a developmental continuum and the standards.\n- Includes monthly units of study that integrate reading and writing so both work together to provide maximum support for students.\n- The units are organized around four essential components, process, genre, strategy, and conventions, addressing everything students need to know about reading and writing.\n- Packed with ready-to-use lessons that offer exemplary teaching and continuous assessment.\n- Features a flexible framework that sh...

On Becoming Preschool Wise: Optimizing Educational Outcomes What Preschoolers Need to Learn (On B...

By: Gary Ezzo, Robert Bucknam

Parent Wise Solutions

Who can understand the mind of a preschooler? You can! Know that above all else, a preschooler is a learner. His amazing powers of reasoning and discrimination are awakened through a world of play and imagination. Through home relationships, he learns about love, trust, comfort, and security; through friends he learns to measure himself against a world of peers; and through unconditional love, a child establishes his own unique selfhood. The growth period between ages three and five years is all about learning, and On Becoming Preschoolwise is all about helping parents create the right opportunities and best environment to optimize their child's learning potential.Now influencing over two million homes worldwide, trusted parenting authors Gary Ezzo and Dr. Robert Bucknam once again brin...

The Complete Resource Book for Infants: Over 700 Experiences for Children from Birth to 18 Months

By: Pam Schiller

Gryphon House

Features 700 experiences and activities that are perfect for infants from birth to 18 months and organized by developmental areas which are essential building blocks for development. The appendix is full of songs, rhymes, recipes, sign language, recommended books and family connection resources. 272 pages.

3-Minute Reading Assessments: Word Recognition, Fluency, and Comprehension: Grades 1-4 (Three-min...

By: Timothy V. Rasinski, Nancy Padak

Teaching Resources

Grades 1 - 4. Simple and easy to use! Leveled passages with ready-to-use assessment pages help teachers quickly screen students for reading problems, such as low word recognition, poor fluency rate, and inadequate comprehension. Record keeping form will allow teachers to document and monitor students performance all year. 64 pages

Early Childhood Education Today (with MyEducationLab) (11th Edition)

By: George S. Morrison

Prentice Hall

Early Childhood Education Today provides the current and comprehensive coverage you expect, plus an advanced assessment and remediation system to support student achievement. New accommodations/inclusion content, NAEYC standards, and curriculum coverage are three other significant additions to this revised edition. Other hallmarks of this leading text are its exceptionally strong coverage of professionalism and its profiles of programs and professionals.

NEW Web-Based Assessment and Remediation Site. A variety of assessment items, supported by video, research articles, and other content from MyEducationLab, provide practice opportunities and scaffold learning. Contains pre- and post...

The GIANT Encyclopedia of Circle Time and Group Activities: For Children 3 to 6

Gryphon House

Open to any page in this book and you will find an activity for circle or group time written by an experienced teacher. Filled with over 600 activities covering 48 themes, this book is jam-packed with ideas that were tested by teachers in the classroom. These are ideas that work, and there are enough to keep children learning and happy for days, weeks and months. Many activities include suggestions for extending the circle time or group activity into other areas of the curriculum such as math, science, snack, language, or field trips. Books and songs related to the activity as well as original songs and poems are included.

Early Childhood Education Today (11th Edition)

By: George S. Morrison

Prentice Hall

This comprehensive, best-selling text on Introduction to Early Childhood Education focuses on the early care and education of young children from birth to age eight. Written at a time of change in education, the author writes about the challenges facing early child educators today. More than ever before, teachers are being held accountable for children’s progress. Every teacher must interact with each child in developmentally and culturally appropriate ways, while also meeting the state and school district standards. The need for teachers to be competent in all areas of professional practice has never been greater. Known for its Voices of Professionals features, its coverage of professionalism is woven throughout th...

Child, Family, School, Community: Socialization and Support

By: Roberta M. Berns

Wadsworth Publishing

Now in full color, best-selling CHILD, FAMILY, SCHOOL, COMMUNITY: SOCIALIZATION AND SUPPORT, 8th Edition, offers an excellent introduction to socialization. Examining how the school, family, and community influence children's socialization, the text is grounded in a powerful conceptual framework--Urie Bronfenbrenner's Bioecological Model of Human Development. Extremely reader friendly, the text addresses complex issues in a clear, comprehensive format. Its sensitive presentation of diversity issues includes matters related to culture,ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and special needs.

Mini Book Of The Week: 40 Easy-to-Read Mini-Books on Fiction and Nonfiction Topics for Every Week...

By: Maria Fleming

Teaching Resources

40 Easy-to-Read Mini-Books on Fiction and Nonfiction Topics for Every Week of the School Year\n\nBy Maria Fleming\n\nFully reproducible.\nFlip books shape books step books accordion books and other fun formats-just right for emergent readers. Favorite topics take you through the school year: seasons holidays animals and more. Great for send-home reading practice.\n\n96 pages 8.75''x11''\nGrades K-2

Designs for Living and Learning: Transforming Early Childhood Environments

By: Deb Curtis, Margie Carter

Redleaf Press

Give children wondrous places to learn and grow! Drawing inspiration from a variety of approaches -- from Waldorf to Montessori to Reggio to Greenman, Prescott, and Olds -- the authors outline hundreds of ways to create healthy and inviting physical, social, and emotional environments for children in child care. Full-color photographs of actual early childhood programs demonstrate that the spaces children learn and grow in can be comfortable for children, teachers, and parents alike.

Margie Carter serves on the adjunct faculty at Pacific Oaks College Northwest, Seattle, Washington. Deb Curtis works as a child care teacher at the Burlington Little School in Seattle. Their other books include The Art of Awareness, The Visionary Director, Training Teachers, Sprea...

Getting Started With the Traits: K-2: Writing Lessons, Activities, Scoring Guides, and More for S...

By: Ruth Culham, Raymond Coutu

Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching

Writing Lessons, Activities, Scoring Guides, and More for Successfully Launching Trait-Based Instruction in Your Classroom

For primary-grade teachers who want to weave the traits into their writing program but are unsure where to begin, help has arrived! This book contain just what they need to get started: trait-focused lessons, activities, reproducibles, scoring guides, conference comments, scored sample papers, children's book lists, and teaching tips. But Culham and Coutu do more than provide "stuff"; they provide reliable, levelheaded, easy-to-follow advice on applying the traits so teachers begin seeing results in their students' work from day one.

112 pages 8 1/2" x 11"
Grades K-2

Infants, Toddlers, and Caregivers: A Curriculum of Respectful, Responsive Care and Education

By: Janet Gonzalez-Mena, Dianne Widmeyer Eyer

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Combining a child-centered philosophy with problem-solving strategies, and a thorough discussion of diversity, Infants, Toddlers, and Caregivers serves as an ideal introduction to curriculum and care for infants and toddlers.

The approach to caregiving that underlies the text is based on Magda Gerbers philosophy combined with a bold new approach to the extensive 62 years of research done by her late colleague, Emmi Pikler. Focusing on the concept of respect in child care, both pioneers based their curriculum around responding to each individual child's needs in a warm and sensitive manner. Stressing the need for physical and social growth through planned and unplanned learning exercises, Gerber and Pikler's approach to childcare aims to develop the mental, physical, ...

The Complete Resource Book for Toddlers and Twos: Over 2000 Experiences and Ideas

By: Pam Schiller

Gryphon House

Over 2000 Experiences and Ideas-This welcome collection is designed for children aged 12-36 months. Each of the 100 daily topics is divided into activities and experiments that enrich language skills, cognitive development, social-emotional development, and physical development. Children explore a variety of captivating themes such as "Physical Me" and "Celebrations" through stories, music, art exercises, and more. A detailed appendix offers a quick, easy reference to a number of helpful tools such as craft patterns, flannel storyboards, sign language diagrams, and reproducible letters home.

Assessment in Early Childhood Education (5th Edition)

By: Sue C. Wortham

Prentice Hall

This revision is one of the most accessible, practical texts available on assessing young children from infancy through age 8. The book focuses on formal and informal assessment content, strategies, and examples; observation guidelines and strategies; how to use assessments for curriculum planning and for communicating with families; and the spectrum of current assessment issues. Key changes to this edition include more on infant and toddler observation, screening, and standardized testing; the impact of NCLB and Head Start National Reporting System on assessing children; more mini-case studies illustrating real assessment situations in programs and schools today; expanded information on working with children who are bilingual or limited English ...

The Continuum of Literacy Learning, Grades K-2: A Guide to Teaching

By: Gay Su Pinnell, Irene C. Fountas

Heinemann

Young Investigators: The Project Approach in the Early Years (Early Childhood Education Series (T...

By: Judy Harris Helm, Lilian Katz

Teachers College Press

This work aims to illustrate how children - even those considered "at-risk" - may benefit from the exploratory and child-initiated nature of project investigations in order to achieve mastery of basic literacy skills. It also presents student-initiated learning as a starting point for dynamic and responsive teaching. The story of how projects emerge, develop, and culminate is told through a combination of teacher interviews and vivid accounts of classroom practice. Building upon inclusionary and child-centred practices, the authors offer a much-needed perspective on the pre-primary years. Key features include: an emphasis on how teachers solve the practical problems of doing projects with young children, including selecting topics, organizing the classroom, setting up field visits, enco...

The Power of Guidance: Teaching Social-Emotional Skills in Early Childhood Classrooms

By: Dan Gartrell

Wadsworth Publishing

The Power of Guidance: Teaching Social-Emotional Skills In the Early Childhood Classroom gives readers valuable insight into using guidance in the early childhood setting through a collection of popular writings on this timely topic. Taking into consideration the social and emotional development in young children, the book examines such areas as understanding why children behave the way they do and how to use the guidance approach to succeed in teaching acceptable social behaviors. The material discusses the differences between such important concepts as patience and understanding and between misbehavior and mistaken behavior. These concepts provide insight into the importance of developing an encouraging classroom and how that leads to non-punitive strategies for managing the classroom...

The Process of Parenting

By: Jane B. Brooks

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

The Process of Parenting is a comprehensive introduction to parenting that describes the many ways parents and caregivers can translate their love and concern for children into effective parenting behavior. With a strong emphasis on the developmental process and on the changing nature of parent-children relationships over time, the book presents a wide range of theories and research with a focus on real-life applications. Because parents and children are distinct individuals, a problem-solving approach is emphasized that can help parents arrive at solutions that fit them, their children, and their life circumstances. Two basic tasks of parenting are emphasized as ultimate ends: creating close emotional relationships with children and supporting the development of children's full ...