Pre-school and kindergarten

The movement to connect young children with nature continues to grow, as more parents and educators become passionate about bringing learning outdoors and letting children explore outside the bounds of traditional lessons.

Discover new, practical methods for teaching literacy skills in your early childhood classroom.

The Early Years Handbook for Students and Practitioners is a comprehensive and accessible course text for all students studying at levels 4 and 5, including on Foundation Degrees and Early Childhood Studies degrees.

All young children are entitled to high-quality experiences when it comes to their education.

Includes CD-Rom`This book is highly recommended for all practitioners interested in improving their practice in developing young children's communication and language.

Negotiating Adult-Child Relationships in Early Childhood Research presents a substantive critique of technicist and neoliberal approaches to ethics through an exploration of the complicated and often 'messy' situations faced in negotiating relationships in research with children.

Outdoor play is a significant and essential aspect of a young child's development and enjoys a renewed emphasis in early years practice, in keeping with the core principles embedded within the early years tradition.

Integrating Prosocial Learning with Education Standards demonstrates how to meet educational standards that privilege cognitive aspects of learning while also advancing prosocial or Whole Child efforts (e.

The classroom environment is an essential component for maximizing learning experiences for young children.

Children are naturally drawn to mark-making.

Family childcare homes provide care for hundreds of thousands of children every day.

How can young children play an active role in developing the design of learning environments?

`The 'Raising Early Achievement in Literacy' or REAL project was the result of a collaboration between the University of Sheffield, Sheffield LEA and schools and centres across the city of Sheffield, starting in 1995.

Beginning Primary Teaching supports primary teachers' early professional development and learning, tackling key questions and concerns that new teachers might face in their early careers, such as: How will I get through the first term?

Praise for 3rd edition:'Experienced practitioners and students will find a host of new ideas to help them create interesting environments and starting points to promote young children's learning.

While Comprehensive Community Initiatives (CCIs) provide promising avenues to support the positive development of all young people, research findings assessing the relation between CCIs and community-level child and youth outcomes have been mixed.

This accessible and practical book provides hands-on, tried and tested strategies to help the reader respond instantly and effectively to behaviour problems in early years settings.

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

Malik Goes to School: Examining the Language Skills of African American Students From Preschool-5th Grade synthesizes a decade of research by the authors, Holly Craig and Julie Washington, on the oral language and literacy skills of African American children from preschool to fifth grade.

Theories of Early Childhood Education continues to provide a comprehensive overview of the various theoretical perspectives in early childhood education from developmental psychology to critical studies, Piaget to Freire.

This important and engaging resource offers a step-by-step framework for developing early childhood community programming that centers the learning needs of children, supersedes socioeconomic barriers, and activates the power of community.

Making outdoor teaching and learning work in practice is now a key priority for all early years practitioners.

Taking a broad approach, Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care relates issues of early childhood to the sociology of childhood, philosophy, ethics, political science and other fields and to an analysis of the world we live in today.

Young People, Place and Identity offers a series of rich insights into young people's everyday lives.

Create an inclusive classroom for all with these fun and accessible activities for PSHE, Citizenship and Religious Education lessons.

Contrary to previously held beliefs that bilingualism wonder hinder cognitive and language development in children, research has shown that bilingual children show enhanced cognitive flexibility and an ability to better focus their attention.

Child-Initiated Play and Learning shows how a creative approach to learning that allows for spontaneous adventures in play through child-led projects can lead to rich learning experiences that build on children's own interests.

What is the role of early childhood practice in understanding the needs of parents and carers today?

How can early years practitioners help young children to become not only numerate but aspiring mathematicians who love numbers, shapes and mathematical comparisons?

Every child belongs.

This practical book is packed with tried-and-tested activities which draw on popular stories and rhymes, and use everyday materials and objects to help young children develop their understanding and enjoyment of mathematical concepts.

Interprofessional working is one of the key subjects taught across early years, education, health and social care programmes, as a result of the move towards a more integrated practice for children.

The Scandalous Neglect of Children's Mental Health: What Schools Can Do makes the case that children with mental health needs are under-identified and under-served by schools and other agencies.

Ever faced challenges motivating clients to participate in speech therapy practice at home?

Executive Function Is Key Do some children in your classroom have difficulty remembering the rules, gathering their materials independently, or completing activities?

What is meant by high quality observation in the early years?

The United States is currently grappling with how to prepare our students to be computer literate citizens in the competitive technological world we live in.

Reading to your children has been recommended to parents of young children for decades by literacy experts.

Combining teaching experience, research findings, and first-hand parenting stories, this compelling and practical resource distills everything you need to know for a thorough understanding of language and early literacy development.

Both home and school play a crucial role in the long-term development of a young child, yet many children experience a disjunction between their two worlds.

This handbook provides foundational, conceptual, and practical knowledge and understanding of inclusive education and special needs education.

50 Hands-On Advanced Literacy Strategies for Young Learners, PreK-Grade 2 is your go-to resource for lessons, strategies, and activities to foster the key skills and thinking strategies needed to excel in literacy.

Previously published as The Early Years Professional's Complete Companion, this new edition has been thoroughly updated and is the essential resource for aspiring and existing leaders of early years practice.

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.

This book explores the contribution of and art and creativity to early education, and examines the role of the atelier (an arts workshop in a school) and atelierista (an educator with an arts background) in the pioneering pre-schools of Reggio Emilia.

This guide introduces applied antiracist developmental science and developmental frameworks that have been comprehensively integrated with antiracist principles.

This book redefines leadership in early childhood education (ECE), offering fresh theoretical insights and practical approaches.

This annotated anthology documents historical trends and basic findings regarding music in early childhood education, development, and care.

This book illuminates the complexities of social and emotional learning (SEL) during early childhood and provides readers with supportive tools to enhance and advance social and emotional skills among young children within their homes and classrooms.