Pre-school and kindergarten

This essential text supports students to develop their understanding of children and young people with special educational, and additional support needs.

'This is a book to be treasured.

When Grandpa's computer falls victim to malware, it's up to Zuri to save the day!

This book presents new ethnographic research carried out with five children between one and five years old.

This book captures information about early childhood education and care (ECEC) policies and practices in different countries and aims to question the degree to which these countries have managed to meet the needs of children, families, and the ECEC workforce.

Parenting isn't always the joy it's made out to be.

This text rearticulates understandings of materials-blocks of clay, sheets of paper, brushes and paints, fabrics, and plastics-to formulate new ideas about what happens when we think with materials and apply them to early childhood development and classrooms.

Being, Becoming and Thriving as an Early Years Practitioner captures the authentic and often humorous experiences that occur when working with young children, providing a comprehensive and accessible guide to the reality of early years practice.

Providing high quality play experiences is an essential part of good early years education, but this can pose a challenge for practitioners who face pressure from a more didactic primary curriculum, and from parents worried that their children will fail to acquire essential skills and knowledge.

Being able to read and write with ease does not just open up imagination and learning, it also helps us to thrive and cope in a world increasingly based on complex information from coding to utility bills.

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 author of the best-selling book Transition Time brings you more attention-grabbing, creative activities to turn potentially stressful transitions into fun learning experiences.

The transition from primary to secondary school can often be a difficult time for children, and managing the transition smoothly has posed a problem for teachers at both upper primary and lower secondary level.

An expert in her field, Helen Penn discusses the inequalities between and within countries of childhood poverty and how this poverty is recognized and defined through the following case-studies: Kazakhstan - once part of the Soviet Union Swaziland - a country in Southern Africa devastated by HIV and AIDS Himalayan India Brazil - one of the world's most unequal countries.

Parents will appreciate Creating a Beautiful Mess because it's fun and helpful.

Speech, language, and communication are key to young children's well-being and development.

The authors ofPreschool Math--a scientist, a Montessori teacher, and an Emergent Curriculum advocate--come from different backgrounds and all offer unique expertise to the book.

Learning to Trust describes a constructivist approach to classroom management and discipline that was developed by the Child Development Project, a multiyear research and development project that applied attachment theory, care, and self-determination theories to the elementary school classroom.

The Routledge International Handbook of Early Literacy Education offers a pioneering overview of early literacy provision in different parts of the world and brings together interdisciplinary research evidence on effective literacy teaching to inform current and future practice and policy of early literacy.

This book will help develop coping skills through arts and language-based activities.

Learning about shapes has never been so much fun!

Gus loves to gulp yoghurt, but he is not the only one.

Evaluation is an essential element of professional practice.

This book offers practical advice and guidance on how children can be helped to use language to transform knowledge and experience into understanding across the curriculum, and thus become active learners.

When do babies begin to learn and what exactly are they learning?

Connecting Children focuses on children's understandings of care and their views of different family lives.

Incorporate inquiry-based practices into your early childhood classroom or family child care program.

Art Across the Alphabet contains art-centered activities for children ages three to six to reinforce letter recognition, build phonemic awareness and pre-reading skills, and associate reading with FUN!

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

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

The Bridge to School provides concise, targeted information for teachers who work in PreK, Transitional Kindergarten, or Kindergarten settings, covering both the why and the how of play in classrooms, along with insights into how the normal development of 4-to-6-year-olds is manifested and how teachers can harness and work with those typical needs and behaviors.

Originally published in 1997.

Exploring and expanding upon current understandings of early childhood music education, this book provides a much-needed response to the rapid social, cultural and technological developments affecting children's experience of music today.

Teaching STEM to young children is about more than helping them learn their numbers and facts.

This book supports students on foundation degrees and degrees in Early Years and Early Childhood Studies that have a work-based element.

Bugs and spiders are fascinating to adults and children alike!

Children spend more time in school than in any social institution outside the home.

Presenting a range of exciting activities that support the development of creative English lessons within the existing structures of the Foundation Curriculum and the National Curriculum, this book: is packed full of interactive and creative teaching strategies provides guidance on assessing creative work highlights opportunities for creative literacy activities across the curriculum covers ages 3-11.

This inspiring book shows how Early Years staff can support the best possible practice for children under three and their families whilst making use of the limited funding available.

Bringing together the experiences of professionals from around the world, this essential text explores the intersections between pedagogy and leadership to consider how effective Pedagogical Leadership can be used to foster the collaborative engagement of children and their families, staff and practitioners, and ensure high quality provision in early years settings and services.

First Published in 2006.

If children are to succeed and progress at school, schools and teachers need to understand how children experience the classroom.

This engaging book presents some of the ways in which science can describe and explain how and why children develop in the way they do.

Sie möchten Kinder und Jugendliche mit Achtsamkeit vertraut machen?

Resilience and Wellbeing in Young Children, Their Families and Communities unpicks the theme of resilience and wellbeing through diverse contexts, circumstances, populations and life stories in order to explore its complexity globally.

A comprehensive theory-to-practice guidebook, Supporting Literacies for Children of Color argues for a new strength-based view of teaching to support the literacy talents and abilities of preschool-aged children of Color.

In an ever-changing world, good manners never go out of style.

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.

Originally published in 1931, this title looks at the education received by children working in industry in England between 1833 and 1876.