Education and Study aids / Preschool and Elementary

Teaching STEM in the Early Years: Activities for Integrating Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

by Sally Moomaw

Weave STEM activities into young children’s daily experiences for well-rounded learning.

Organic Literacy: The Keywords Approach to Owning Words in Print

by Kathy R. Fox, Chelsey Bahlmann & Joy Foster Hughes

Organic vocabulary describes a child’s inner source of thoughts and is based on the work of New Zealand educator Sylvia Ashton-Warner. It can help promote early literacy among children who have limited experience...

Understanding Autism In The Early Years

by Prithvi Perepa

The book provides focus on three areas of difficulties for children with autism, as well as the role of early years practitioners.

Kindergarten: Is Your Child Ready? (a Parent's Guide for Kindergarten Readiness)

by Dr. Kathy Lee Guajardo

This book is for parents and others who will have children entering kindergarten or teach pre-school-aged children. This book provides information that is researched based and by kindergarten teachers across...

The Revised EYFS in practice

by Ann Langston

With the new EYFS in its infancy, this practical professional development title will take practitioners through the new policies and provide vital information and practical advice on how to implement it effectively....

Page to Stage: Developing Writing, Speaking And Listening Skills in Primary Schools

by James Carter

An exciting and creative approaches that links literacy and oracy in a way that children will enjoy. Performing poetry is also proven to boost self-esteem.

Includes:

* An audio CD with recordings of published...

Feeding the Under 5s

by Allan Dyson & Lucy Meredith

One young child in every four is overweight and one in ten is obese, some of the reasons for this are:

• a general lack of interest and understanding of food and cooking
• junk food being consumed every day 
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Planning for the Early Years: Storytelling and storymaking

by Judith Stevens

Planning for the Early Years: Storytelling and storymaking is a lovely book packed with adaptable ideas that can be extended for older children, or more focused for the under threes. It focuses on the prime...

Starting with A collection of Stories and Poems

by Alison Milford

This innovative and flexible series of five books, is specifically designed to support and develop a child's personal, social and emotional wellbeing through stories and poems with links to PSED in the EYFS,...

Essential Primary Mathematics

by Caroline Rickard

This book aims to support student teachers and current practitioners in teaching mathematics in effective and creative ways.

Time to Create: Hands-On Explorations in Process Art for Young Children

by Christie Burnett

Positive creative and artistic experiences provide for a child’s learning and development, and the most effective engagement goes well beyond learning the names of colors or how to hold a pencil to draw....

The Homegrown Preschooler: Teaching Kids in the Places They Live

by Kathy H. Lee & Lesli Richards

With the accessibility of a parenting how-to book and the thorough educational foundation of an expensive boxed curriculum, this guide will inspire parents to use their homes as classrooms as they take advantage...

Understanding Behaviour in the Early Years: A practical guide to supporting each child's behaviour in the early years setting

by Kay Mathieson

Understanding Behaviour in the Early Years provides information, practical suggestions and ideas that enable practitioners to take a positive approach to young children's learning about behaviour. Linked directly...

Special Educational Needs in Practice (Revised Edition): A step-by-step guide to developing a SEN inclusion policy and delivering the requirements of

by Selena Ledgerton Cooper

Special Educational Needs in Practice has been revised so as to consider all professionals involved with working with children with special needs. This edition covers the role and responsibility of the SENCO,...

Stepping Stones to Creativity

by Judith Harris & Mel Astill

This guide contains four books-worth of creative activities for the early years in one bumper-value guide. Perfect to dip into, this gem of a guide features: - Hundreds of easy-to-follow activities that cover...

Science Knowledge for Primary Teachers: Understanding the Science in the Qca Scheme

by Linda Gillard

Specifically structured around the QCA schemes of work, this book focuses upon developing the science subject knowledge of the reader up to the standards needed for QTS. It provides:

• clear explanations of the...

Planning for Learning to Use Phonics

by Rachel Sparks Linfield

Plan for six weeks of learning covering all six areas of learning and development of the EYFS through the topic of phonics. The aim of this book is to provide early years practitioners in both group and home...

What Does It Mean to Be Two? Revised Edition: What Every Practitioner Needs to Understand about the Development of Two-Year-Olds

by Jennie Lindon

This revised and updated edition helps practitioners to understand the distinction in the 2012 revised EYFS between the prime and specific areas of development for two-year-olds. It considers key issues in a...

Play and Learning in the Early Years: Practical Activities and Games for the Under 3s

by Jennie Lindon

This book is a comprehensive resource for practical activities and games for the under threes. As well as providing a wealth of activities for pre-school children, this book maps out exactly how each activities...

Handbook for Learning Mentors in Primary and Secondary Schools

by Margaret Roberts & Dot Constable

Written with the needs of learning mentors in mind, this book outlines the school organization in which the mentor will find themselves and deals with the tasks and responsibilities they will have to consider...