Pre-school and kindergarten

The 50 Fantastic Ideas series is packed full of fun, original, skills-based activities for Early Years practitioners to use with children aged 0-5.

100 Ideas for Early Years Practitioners: Observation, Assessment & Planning is not only filled with easy to implement and practical ideas for the early years classroom, but it also demonstrates why assessment is an important formative tool to help further children's learning.

100 Ideas for Early Years Practitioners: Observation, Assessment & Planning is not only filled with easy to implement and practical ideas for the early years classroom, but it also demonstrates why assessment is an important formative tool to help further children's learning.

The Dyslexia Assessment is a complete assessment tool for investigating reading, writing and spelling difficulties in learners.

The Dyslexia Assessment is a complete assessment tool for investigating reading, writing and spelling difficulties in learners.

_______________ The 50 Fantastic Ideas series is packed full of fun, original, skills-based activities for Early Years practitioners to use with children aged 0-5.

From the best-selling author of How Are You Feeling Today?

_______________ The 50 Fantastic Ideas series is packed full of fun, original, skills-based activities for Early Years practitioners to use with children aged 0-5.

When given soil, clay or mud to play with, most children are instinctively motivated to explore and experiment.

Role-play is a fun and creative way to engage with children in EYFS, and is fundamental in developing children's learning and communication skills.

With two year olds now becoming an established part of the school population in many areas of the UK, it is critically important that those working with these very young children fully understand how literacy can be most successfully approached at this sensitive and crucial stage of their development.

Forest School sessions have risen in popularity in recent years, with many nurseries and pre-schools offering them as part of their regular programme of activities.

Forest School sessions have risen in popularity in recent years, with many nurseries and pre-schools offering them as part of their regular programme of activities.

_______________ The 50 Fantastic Ideas series is packed full of fun, original, skills-based activities for Early Years practitioners to use with children aged 0-5.

Translating research about child neuroscience into practice in education is a daunting prospect for most practitioners.

Translating research about child neuroscience into practice in education is a daunting prospect for most practitioners.

How to be an Outstanding Early Years Practitioner is an all-encompassing, comprehensive guide to improving and developing your early years knowledge and delivering outstanding practice on a daily basis.

How to be an Outstanding Early Years Practitioner is an all-encompassing, comprehensive guide to improving and developing your early years knowledge and delivering outstanding practice on a daily basis.

This book provides suggestions for activities and visits in your local neighbourhood, together with plans and advice on how to fully explore the area around your setting.

_______________ The 50 Fantastic Ideas series is packed full of fun, original, skills-based activities for Early Years practitioners to use with children aged 0-5.

The 50 Fantastic Ideas series is packed full of fun, original, skills-based activities for Early Years practitioners to use with children aged 0-5.

Outdoors is a great space to enhance and extend children's learning.

Not only is the changing of the seasons an ideal time for children to focus on their understanding and exploration of the world around them, it is also a fantastic opportunity to encourage them to learn new skills or consolidate existing ones, using 'seasons' as a focus.

Identified as one of the three prime areas of learning in the EYFS 2014, communication and language is high on the agenda of head teachers and leaders in all Early Years and school settings.

Getting continuous provision right is about ensuring that everything in your environment has been created to help children to learn in the absence of an adult.

Essential reading for all Reception and Year One teachers, presenting a clear and practical map for effective transition to support children's emotional, social and academic development.

Winner of the ERA award for Early Years_______________On average, children from low income backgrounds enter reception with lower scores in literacy and mathematics than their peers.

There are more than one million children in UK schools who speak English as an additional language (EAL), and this number is continually rising.

There are more than one million children in UK schools who speak English as an additional language (EAL), and this number is continually rising.

The problem of boys' underachievement is an issue across the entire developed world and has presented teachers and early years practitioners with challenges as well as opportunities.

This Little Book offers practitioners step-by-step activities for clay and other malleable materials with children in the Foundation Stage.

Let Mary Medlicott help you with a key skill - telling stories without a book.

Give your sand and water sessions a new lease of life with this fully updated Little Book.

Listening to music and moving in response to the sounds we hear is the most natural reaction in the world.

Maths in general is an area many early years practitioners lack confidence in – many having struggled at school themselves.

This Little Book builds on children's natural enthusiasm and curiosity about shape and space.

The Little Book of Print Making is perfect for practitioners working on a tight budget.

Beginning drama with very young children can be a daunting prospect, but the benefits for children performing to an audience are endless.

This Little Book offers easy-to-follow activities and opportunities for maths problem-solving, both indoors and out.

The Little Book of Free and Found Resources gives practitioners the confidence to get out there and source unique, free resources to enrich the curriculum they offer their children.

The Little Book of Role Play Windows provides a range of fun role play activities, in which scenarios are acted out through a window made using just a cardboard box.

Storybuilding is a cooperative story making technique - with a group of children the practitioner builds an original story e.

Following the success of the Little Book of Investigations, this book goes one step further in size, scale and scope.

The stories featured in this book come from all over the world.

The activities and suggestions in The Little Book of Sequencing Skills will help you and the children in your care to explore a range of creative ways to develop sequencing skills.

With the revision of the EYFS in September 2012, mathematics became one of the Specific Areas of Learning.

With the revision of the EYFS in September 2012, Communication and Language became one of the three Prime Areas of learning.