Pre-school and kindergarten

Phonics for Pupils with Special Educational Needs is a complete, structured, multisensory programme for teaching reading and spelling, making it fun and accessible for all.

Cooking provides children with a wealth of opportunities to discover new materials and processes; develop their physical and social skills; and lead their own learning.

Historical changes in play are taking place in childhood all over the world, with the digitalisation of children's lives.

The Early Years Intervention Toolkit provides a range of ready-made activities to enable early years practitioners and health visitors to address observed difficulties in a child's development prior to starting school.

Research findings repeatedly show that music is one of the subjects which teachers feel least confident to tackle.

Im Anfangsunterricht der Grundschule werden die Grundlagen für erfolgreiche schulische Bildungsverläufe von Kindern gelegt.

First published in 1986, this book has been enormously influential in the training and professional development of early years workers.

By celebrating the spirit and principles that are enshrined in the Curriculum Guidance for the Foundation Stage (DfES, 2000), this book describes how children learn and develop best in good Early Years practice.

Understanding and Supporting Young Writers from Birth to 8 provides practitioners with the knowledge and skills they need to support young children as they learn to write.

The book not only provides empirical evidence of challenges faced by educators and learners during COVID-19 but also gives fresh insights on how educators and education administrators may act proactively to prepare for an emergency situation.

Research on home visiting shows that Early Head Start (EHS) home-based programs benefit from additional training and resources that streamline philosophy and content.

More than 75 empowering and healing classroom activitiesChildren living with uncertainty and insecurity often have difficulty focusing on learning.

Thinking about early childhood education will offer an academic and critical approach to the wealth of theories that underpin elements of current practice in early childhood care and education.

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In der Kita erleben und entdecken Kinder erstmalig, dass nicht alle den gleichen Glauben haben.

Using creative and performative methods is central to engaging children in fun and inspiring learning.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to becoming a more eco-friendly setting, from small steps that can be taken to reduce waste and improve efficiency to setting up partnerships.

Relationships with Families in Early Childhood Education and Care radically challenges the role assigned to parents in neoliberal discussions of early childhood education and care, and presents new ways of thinking about relationships with families.

Every state has developed some form of early learning standards.

What should children and students read?

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the challenges, potential and theoretical possibilities of apps and considers the processes of change for education and home learning environments.

Steer children toward a lifetime of reading with more than two hundred activities, games, and songs to introduce the alphabet.

Creating an inclusive early learning program can be a challenge for site leaders who lack knowledge about special-education laws, struggle to create policies and accommodations that meet the needs of all children, and find it difficult to support staff and collaborate with families and the community.

Kinder im Vorschulalter haben in der Regel eine gut verständliche Umgangssprache, verfügen über einen ausreichenden Wortschatz und verwenden eine weitgehend korrekte Grammatik.

Preschoolers have a sense of wonder about so many aspects of their world.

This accessible guide will be an invaluable resource for early years practitioners looking to make a positive difference in their settings by using action research or teacher enquiry.

Picturebooks, understood as a series of meaningful text-picture relations, are increasingly acknowledged as an autonomous sub-genre of children's literature.

Whether you are a teacher looking for ways to strengthen the math learning in your early childhood classroom, an educator in a community of practice who wants to learn more about teaching math in developmentally appropriate ways, or a teacher-educator who wants to offer students an easy-to-use reference and guide for helping young children develop their math competencies and skills, this text will help you make math learning a fun and worthwhile activity in your setting.

Boys' underachievement in education has now become a global concern, taxing the minds of governments across the Western world.

Using the latest brain research to explore and explain differences in how boys and girls learn, this informative resource provides early childhood educators tools to make the way they teach and their classrooms more boy friendly.

This volume is a collection of articles that showcase new research that is emerging from laboratory schools, guided by principles of applied developmental science.

Evaluar en Educacion Infantil es algo mas que localizar evidencias, efectuar comprobaciones o medirlas.

Reading Success in the Early Primary Years is a step-by-step guide to structured literacy instruction for teachers working in the early years of primary school.

The most rapid and significant phase of development occurs in the first three years of a child's life.

This very practical book offers advice for teachers.

A major influence on the education of young children since the late nineteenth century, the philosophical and practical tenets of Frobelian early childhood education require urgent re-articulation in light of current debate and developments in research and policy.

The Chinese language is now used by a quarter of the world's population and is increasingly popular as a second language.

Nett und überschaubar - und genauso professionell wie Krippe und Kita!

The Importance of Play in Early Childhood Education presents various theories of play and demonstrates how it serves communicative, developmental, and relational functions, highlighting the importance and development of the capacity to play in terms useful to early childhood educators.

In this classic of childhood education, Friedrich Froebel identifies the fundamental principles upon which he based his now-ubiquitous kindergarten system.

Understanding Child Development introduces the main areas of developmental psychology in childhood.

During the second half of the twentieth century, Ann Brown was one of the worlds premier researchers into the cognitive development of young children.

This book provides early years practitioners with everything they need to implement creative and stimulating methods of working with children.

Rachel and Margaret McMillan, Maria Montessori and Susan Isaacs have had a major impact on contemporary early years curriculum theory and practice.

This book furthers understanding of how child temperament is linked to educational outcomes through mediating and moderating factors.

'[T]his second edition book is a welcome contribution to the early years literature base, providing much needed information and a somewhat innovative response concerning how effectively to translate the Early Years Foundation Stage into practice' - Early Years`This second edition of Learning in the Early Years has been fully updated to bring it in line with the Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage.

Explaining the importance of supporting children through change for their wellbeing and social and emotional development, this practical guide gives early years practitioners and parents the tools to help children cope with change and everyday transitions.

The perfect way to turn children's love of active games into learning opportunities!

Children are 'hard-wired' to learn and they learn best by being active and autonomous - exploring, discovering, creating and taking risks, in other words, by playing.

The provision of early childhood educational and psychological services has been an area of considerable growth over the past 25 years.