Pre-school and kindergarten

Examines the meaning of curriculum, discusses curriculum integration, describes how to plan, create, and evaluate a curriculum, and examines how modern literacy, mathematics, social studies, science, and expressive arts curricula evolved into their present forms.

This fully updated new edition of Best Practice in the Early Years, from award-winning author Dr Alistair Bryce-Clegg, is the must-have guide for anyone working in the Early Years Foundation Stage.

This seventh edition of the best-selling The SENCo Handbook has been updated to reflect the impact that the implementation of the SEND Code of Practice (DfE/DoH 2015) has had on policy and practice in schools and for SENCos.

Spatial Intelligence examines public and professional conceptions of the relationships between thinking about spatial attributes and active engagement in spatially related constructions and designs.

Practical Research with Children is designed to help the reader understand techniques for research with children, based on real world experience.

'This book is a welcome addition to the field of Early Childhood studies and would appeal to both students and professionals working with children and families in any area.

This book explores boys' underachievement in literacy in early years education in Malta, using the dual lens of children's rights and postcolonial theory.

Children are natural scientists, drawn to wonder, exploration, discovery, and analysis.

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

In classrooms across the country, teachers are encountering more children who are learning English, come from diverse backgrounds, and who speak a variety of languages.

The Little Book of Reflective Practice is bursting with big ideas which will encourage you to be curious, reflective and courageous in your professional learning journey.

Outdoor learning and play experiences are an essential part of young children's development.

Mental Health and Academic Learning in Schools: Approaches for Facilitating the Wellbeing of Children and Young People investigates the many areas impacting on young people's learning and mental health in a unified manner.

This isn't about health and safety as such, it's about building the foundations of children's 'well-being': emotionally as well as physically.

A crucial contemporary dynamic around children and young people in the Global North is the multiple ways that have emerged to monitor their development, behaviour and character.

The 'Get to Know Me' series is aimed at children with additional needs and those who support them in the classroom.

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

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.

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Enhancing Digital Literacy and Creativity is an exploration of how young children gain digital literacies in 'makerspaces.

Foundationsof Mathematicsoutlines seven strands of practice which underpin successful mathematicaldevelopment inchildren aged 3-7.

With 1994 designated the United Nations Year of the Family, young children and their relationship with parents and carers is firmly back on the political agenda.

Pip at Home is the sixth book in the invaluable 'Pip and Bunny' collection; a set of six picture books with an accompanying handbook and e-resources carefully written and illustrated to support the development of visual and literary skills.

This book questions what 'educating the whole child' means in the context of our current neoliberal education system.

The entirely revised third edition of Research with Children forms a unique resource book on the methodology of childhood research with a core emphasis on theory driven practices.

Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs: A Practical Resource brings together theory, policy, and planning for instruction in K-12 classrooms.

Gender is a broad and complex concept, the impact of which can start even before a baby is born.

Preschool teachers and early childhood professionals know that storybook reading is important, but they may not know how to maximize its benefits for later reading achievement.

First published in 1979, this book looks at the subject of childminding in Britain at the time it was written.

How can qualitative researchers make the case for the value of their work in a climate that emphasizes so-called "e;scientifically-based research?

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.

Activities to help children develop sense of security and self-worth by becoming familiar with themselves and the world around them.

Young children are born scientists with an innate desire to analyze and investigate the world around them.

Early years practitioners, parents and carers, child minders, health visitors do you need effective ideas for giving your babies and toddlers support to become confident talkers?

Parental involvement in children's education is a subject of growing interest and recent legislation in both the UK and USA has given formal recognition of parents' rights.

This manual is designed to help teachers establish a principled framework for developing English at Key Stages 1 and 2.

Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs: A Practical Resource brings together theory, policy, and planning for instruction in K-12 classrooms.

This book challenges the current state of childhood studies by exploring children and young people's agency and relationships.

The volume addresses the pertinent need to examine childhood trauma revolving around themes of war, sexual abuse, and disability.

`This is an important publication, which I urge colleagues to read and to consider carefully all the implications' - Early Years`.

'Theresa's book is full of lots of inspiring, practical, 'how to go about it ideas' coupled with thought provoking and sometimes challenging comments and views.

Sharing the care of children in families is increasingly becoming the norm in modern-day society as more mothers enter paid work and government campaigns endeavour to increase the number of men working in childcare.

This concise guide offers an accessible introduction to the key theoretical perspectives and methodologies in developmental psychology.

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.

This vital, sensitive guide explains the serious issues children face online and how they are impacted by them on a developmental, neurological, social, mental health and wellbeing level.

The third edition of this significant and groundbreaking book summarizes current research into how young children learn mathematics and how best to develop foundational knowledge to realize more effective teaching.

This guidebook is designed to support professionals with the effective use of the storybook, Luna Little Legs, which has been created help preschool aged children understand about domestic abuse and coercive control.

This book reveals how early childhood leaders and practitioners can lead and enhance children's play, learning and experiences outdoors.

Recognizing the need for increased social justice in the fields of TESOL and English language teaching (ELT) globally, this volume presents a range of international case studies and empirical research to demonstrate how English language instruction can promote social and linguistic justice through advocacy-oriented pedagogies and curricula.

Highly Commended: Nursery World Awards 2017 Professional Book of the YearEarly Childhood and Neuroscience is a practical guide to understanding the complex and challenging subject of neuroscience and its use (and misapplication) in early childhood policy and practice.