Pre-school and kindergarten

This is a practical, accessible guide to early years practice.

Using drama activities based on a range of classic and modern stories, this inspiring resource equips SENCOs, primary school teachers and speech and language therapists alike with simple, practical and effective tools to improve children's speech, language and communication.

Iona and Peter Opie were twentieth-century pioneers.

A complete road map for word knowledge instruction in PreK-2, this book focuses on developing the word recognition and phonics skills identified in the Common Core standards for foundational skills.

How can teachers improve what they do in the primary classroom?

In light of the latest research from cognitive and developmental psychology, this key text explores reasoning, rationality, and democracy, considering the unique nature of each and their relationship to each other.

Jean Piaget was one of the most significant contributors to our current understanding of how children think and learn, from birth through to adolescence.

Embracing a multi-modal approach to early literacy, this textbook supports students as aspiring early years professionals with their understanding of early reading for under-fives and the critical links to language, literacy, and learning.

Using Developmentally Appropriate Practices to Teach the Common Core: Grades PreK-3 provides current and prospective primary grade teachers with an understanding of the CCSS-ELA and CCSS-M that highlights their compatibility with developmentally appropriate practices (DAP), the instructional approach generally preferred by teachers of young children.

Create a warm and inviting place where children feel at home.

'Chris Athey has made a major contribution to our understanding of how young children think and how educators and parents can best support their learning.

Originally published in 1988, this volume presented a new understanding of how teachers in early childhood education helped children learn.

'I believe that [this book] could be of value to practitioners working with birth-five year olds, heads or managers of nurseries, health professionals or students who wish to gain an overview of this subject.

With this anthology of hand-chosen poems written by well-known, beloved poets, you can introduce poetry to your students in the classroom and beyond.

This book explores "e;making"e; in the school curriculum in a period in which the ability to create and respond to digital artifacts is key and focuses on makerspaces in educational settings.

When young children are engaged in imaginative play, they are not just having fun; they are developing skills and concepts that are foundational to their learning.

Crayons and iPads examines the use of digital technology in the early stages of child development, and the way in which learning techniques have evolved in classrooms across the world.

The Early Years Curriculum brings together a range of curriculum models from across the world, providing in-depth discussion on key issues and theories, and enabling readers to consider each approach to children's learning within an international context.

This important new book synthesizes relevant research on the learning of mathematics from birth into the primary grades from the full range of these complementary perspectives.

This volume is the first to offer a comprehensive, research-based, multi-faceted look at issues in early algebra.

Wild animals have been housed in zoos and aquariums for 5,000 years, fascinating people living in virtually every society.

When teachers implement the project approach to learning, young children can follow their own real-world interests to gain deeper understanding.

This multi-disciplinary and inclusive collection brings together theoretically informed and empirically focused research on sex, intimacy and reproduction in relation to young people and adults with life-shortening conditions.

Maureen Harris has written an early childhood music program that is easily incorporated into the classroom routine.

Part of the Ready, Steady, Play!

The matter of simply living together, on both a global and a local scale, is complicated by the cultural, economic, religious, technological, and ecological challenges that we face in today's world.

How do we save play in a standard-driven educational environment?

Originally published in 1973, this reprints the fourth, updated edition of 1983.

First published in 1956, The Education of Young Children is focused on presenting the psychological needs of children within education, following several talks given by the author at conferences for teachers of young children.

Based on a rich seam of research evidence, this book leverages value in engaging with scientific enquiry to further understanding of young children's emotional experiences.

Seeing play as an important and vital element of life for children and adults alike, this book addresses the ways in which practitioners take account of and act responsibly with moments of children's play and playfulness.

This volume examines gendered and heteronormative norms embedded within early childhood education (ECE) in the Global South, including Brazil, China, Pakistan, South Africa, and Vietnam.

How should practitioners and leaders set about designing and implementing their curriculum in the Early Years Foundation Stage?

This is a tale of two brothers, duelling to become a dragon drawing champion.

A Co-Publication of Routledge and NAEYCTechnology and Digital Media in the Early Years offers early childhood teacher educators, professional development providers, and early childhood educators in pre-service, in-service, and continuing education settings a thought-provoking guide to effective, appropriate, and intentional use of technology with young children.

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Storytelling in Early Childhood is a captivating book which explores the multiple dimensions of storytelling and story acting and shows how they enrich language and literacy learning in the early years.

In this practical resource, Tania Swift provides early years professionals and teachers with advice and tips on incorporating physical activities into all key areas of children's learning.

The Handbook of Family Literacy, 2e, provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of family literacy of any available book.

Embodied Family Choreography documents the lived and embodied practices employed to establish, maintain, and negotiate intimate social relationships in the family, examining forms of control, care, and creativity.

Learn how to conduct and evaluate a successful Phase I ESA to identify existing or potential environmental hazards and 'special resources' for a subject property.

The Road to Writing takes early years practitioners on a journey; the journey young
children make when they learn their first words and make their first marks.

Most early childhood teachers are using learning centers in the classroom, but donot approach them in ways that fully support a variety of learning opportunities.

This volume examines gendered and heteronormative norms embedded within early childhood education (ECE) in the Global South, including Brazil, China, Pakistan, South Africa, and Vietnam.

'[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.

This is a guidebook to help children who: are suffering from the pain of loss or separation from someone or something they love deeply; have had a parent, relative or important friend leave or die; are obsessed with their absent parent; have lost someone they love, but have never really mourned; are trying to manage all their painful feelings of loss by themselves; feel that they have lost the love of someone they love deeply; are suffering from separation anxiety; and are adopted or fostered children who miss their birth parent terribly.

What characteristics do children need to become motivated to learn?

Begabungsförderung im Elementarbereich, ist das notwendig?