Early Childhood

Can you build a sturdy house that is safe from the big, bad wolf?Imagine your dream car. What special features does it have? What can you use to create it?Teaching and learning STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is more...

In this groundbreaking and highly practical book, Number Sense Routines: Building Numerical Literacy Every Day in Grades K-3, author Jessica Shumway proposes that all children have innate number sense which can be developed through daily exercise...

This book is an exploration of story and its importance in early childhood. It provides a thorough theoretical foundation, and considers how to practically implement the use of stories to aid children's wellbeing and holistic development.The chapters...

Help children with SEN and autism to have a good first impression of your school and it can make all the difference to their entire school experience.Regular Teach Early Years contributor and SEN expert Adele Devine shares her top tips for making the...

For students of Early Childhood Studies, questions are as important as answers. What is childhood? Is childhood the same in all cultures? How do children grow and develop? What space do we make for children in our society? How do adults approach...

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. Foregrounding the power of children's own stories...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780545025119Author Ruth CulhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Scholastic USPublisher Scholastic USWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 275mm * 213mm * 6mm

The transition from primary to secondary school is extremely important in the lives of children and young people but it is also a time of significant stress for many. This unique programme is designed to support children during this process, helping to...

The follow-up to the successful Loose Parts and your guide to infants and toddlers safely exploring through play.Loose parts capture children's curiosity, give free reign to their imagination, and encourage creativity. A variety of new and innovative...

Featuring a new spiral binding, the updated ECERS-R (Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale-Revised Edition) offers more practical assistance in the form of an Expanded Score Sheet (which contains a worksheet), and additional notes for clarification to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781338662092Author Adrienne DowneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 25Imprint Scholastic USPublisher Scholastic US

Nature Preschools and Forest Kindergartens is the latest from environmental education expert David Sobel. Joined by a variety of colleagues to share their experiences and steps for creating a successful forest kindergarten program, Nature Preschools and...

Nature Preschools and Forest Kindergartens is the latest from environmental education expert David Sobel. Joined by a variety of colleagues to share their experiences and steps for creating a successful forest kindergarten program, Nature Preschools and...

Loose Parts cross the boundaries of gender, age, abilities, and socioeconomic challenges. Loose Parts 3, the newest addition to the wildly popular Loose Parts series, helps teachers make a conscious effort to create culturally sustainable environments...

Learn how to support developmentally rich language learning environments during a child's first eight years of life! This book demonstrates how to build foundations for a strong communication system, distinguish typical and disordered speech and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578648088Author Morgan Bcba Van DiepenFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Studio van Diepen, LLCPublisher Studio van Diepen, LLCWeight(grams)...

Collins Arabic Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 3 to 11. The series is structured with reference to the learning progression of Arabic at nursery and primary schools researched especially for Collins. This carefully graded approach allows...

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. Covering technologies used by children aged two through to...

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. Using straightforward, practical...

This is a guidebook to help children who:have been given too little encouragement to follow their hopes and dreamsare too despondent or defeated to go after their hopes or their dreamsare too busy surviving, so hopes and dreams are a luxury they cannot...

Explaining the importance of supporting children through change for their wellbeing and social and emotional development, this practical guide gives early years practitioners and parents the tools to help children cope with change and everyday...

Encourage the development of your child's manual dexterity and pencil-control through tracing lines through mazes in this Kumon workbook. By practicing tracing lines, children prepare to write numbers and letters. Follow the Kumon style and be amazed at...

This updated edition of the seminal 2003 text on outdoor play in early years provision taps into the major issues around nutrition, exercise and mental wellbeing in this field. Focusing on the importance of outdoor play from birth to age five, Exercising...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956427427Author Trina John-CharlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Inkerbell Publishing LtdPublisher Inkerbell Publishing LtdDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783723515273Author Christof WiechertFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Verlag am GoetheanumPublisher Verlag am Goetheanum

When children make beautiful drawings, we think it is wonderful. But many adults find it hard to understand what young children are doing when they scribble, smear, or draw endless lines, and why it is so difficult to motivate older children to draw or...

How many sounds do you hear in your day? Follow one boy as he fizzes, pops and crunches his way through his day in this fun non-fiction recount! Children can recap and discuss all the different sounds from the book on pages 14-15.Red B/Band 2B...

Have you ever wondered what the Steiner approach is all about, where it comes from and how it can be used to benefit the young children in your setting? Bringing the Steiner Waldorf Approach to your Early Years Setting is an excellent introduction to...

This useful volume presents a selection of Rudolf Steiner's writings on childhood, alongside supplemental essays on sensory development and imitation, suggestions for how to study Steiner's work, and a discussion of the future of childhood.This is the...

Emphasising the importance of continuity for young children, The Outdoor Classroom Ages 3-7 practically demonstrates how early years settings and schools can maximise the learning potential of the outdoor environment. Fully updated to take into account...

How to Use Work Group Supervision to Improve Early Years Practice presents a new model for supervision as a collaborative process, and explores how this process can benefit practitioners at all stages in their career to reflect on and improve their own...

A blended print and digital Early Years programme for children aged 3 to 5. Oxford International Pre-Primary offers a structured and integrated English, maths and science programme with inspiring characters and a wide range of play-based activities that...

Make music with everyday objects and use your own instruments to accompany recorded music or familiar songs. The book includes body rhythms, making sound with textures and surfaces, using beaters, rhythm, creating sound environments.Make music with...

This book provides an introduction to the theory and practice of mentoring, coaching and supervision in the context of early childhood education and care. Written by a team of scholars from the UK, Ireland, South Africa, Australia and the USA the book...

This evidence-based text explores children's health and wellbeing from birth to adolescence, taking into account the familial, cultural, social, economic, environmental and global contexts of their lives.Divided into three parts, this book draws on an...

This book supports those training to work with young children to explore the many factors that impact on child health and wellbeing. Health is a concept that is often taken for granted in young children. If a child is physically active, appears well and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993196607Author Stacey TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint My Tiny BookPublisher My Tiny Book

Young children have a limited understanding of the risks surrounding them: they fall over, bang their heads, scrape their knees and worse. Parents and practitioners can try to create a risk-free environment, but this can reduce children's chances to to...

Transforming Your Outdoor Early Learning Environments invites center and home based educators to reimagine and reconstruct their image of conventional children's play yards as they know them and to create beautiful outdoor learning spaces on a limited...

Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1-6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide...