Education and Study aids / Preschool and Elementary

Fingerplays and Rhymes: For Always and Sometimes

by Terry Graham

Don't say it, sing it! Children will listen up quick, if you say it with a trick! Rhythm, imagery, and humorous nonsense will delight children while teaching them numbers, colors, shapes, self-concept, feelings,...

Doing Ethical Research With Children

by Deborah Harcourt & Jonathon Sargeant

This book provides a comprehensive and practical introduction to undertaking a research project with children.

Math Puzzles and Brainteasers, Grades 3-5: Over 300 Puzzles that Teach Math and Problem-Solving Skills

by Terry Stickels

Number puzzles, spatial/visual puzzles, cryptograms, Sudoku, Kokuro, logic puzzles, and word games like Frame Games are all a great way to teach math and problem-solving skills to elementary and middle school...

Making a Place for Pleasure in Early Childhood Education

by Joseph J. Tobin

Kindergarten kissing games...four-year-olds playing doctor...a teacher holding a crying child on his lap as he comforts her. Interactions like these—spontaneous and pleasurable—are no longer encouraged in...

Meeting the Learning Needs of All Children: Personalised Learning in the Primary School

by Joan Dean

Personalized learning involves helping each child to reach his or her full potential - intellectually, personally and socially. To achieve this, teachers need to match learning opportunities to the learning...

Teaching History Creatively

by Hilary Cooper

Fresh and innovative, Teaching History Creatively will foster creativity in both learners and practitioners alike. By introducing teachers to a wealth of available approaches to historical enquiry, this book...

Creating a Space to Grow: The Process of Developing your Outdoor Learning Environment

by Gail Ryder Richardson

Packed full of strategies and activities for enhancing outdoor play, this practical guide will enable practitioners to recognize the true value that outdoor spaces can have on a child's educational development...

Organising Play in the Early Years: Practical Ideas for Teachers and Assistants

by Jane Drake

This book presents practitioners with exciting ways in which to deliver the foundation stage curriculum to young children through play in well-planned areas of provision. The author promotes good early years...

Challenges in Primary Science: Meeting the Needs of Able Young Scientists at Key Stage Two

by David Coates & Helen Wilson

This practical and easy-to-use book enables teachers to challenge able children to develop their potential and to extend their thinking in primary science. It links theory to practice to develop understanding...

Excluded From School: Systemic Practice for Mental Health and Education Professionals

by Sue Rendall & Morag Stuart

Excluded From School exposes the reasons why, despite many national and local initiatives, large numbers of children continue to tax the education system to such a degree that they become permanently excluded...

Planning for Learning through Farms

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 farms. The Planning for Learning series is a series of topic books written around the Early...

Planning for Learning through Animals

by Rachel Sparks Linfield & Christine Warwick

This book takes you through six weeks of activities on the theme of animals. Each activity is linked to a specific Early Learning Goal, and the book contains a skills overview so that practitioners can keep...

Un, deux, trois! Upper Juniors Years 5-6

by Eileen Jones

This is an essential resource for the non-specialist who needs extra guidance and accessible material. It will ensure that children of all levels of ability have the opportunities to both enjoy and achieve in...

Meeting Special Needs: A practical guide to support children with Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN)

by Mary Mountstephen

A growing number of children appear to be experiencing delays or difficulties in their speech, language and communication skills. In this book, the author outlines how to identify these children and how to support...

No Biting: Policy and Practice for Toddler Programs, Second Edition

by Gretchen Kinnell

The latest information on a concern of early childhood providers with toddlers: how to handle biting.

Beyond Behavior Management: The Six Life Skills Children Need

by Jenna Bilmes

Guide and manage young children's behavior by helping them build and use essential life skills.

What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know: Preparing Your Child for a Lifetime of Learning

by E.D. Jr Hirsch

With its comprehensive curriculum providing a sound basis in the fundamentals of math, art, history, language arts, science, and technology, the phenomenally successful Core Knowledge series has become an esteemed...

Supporting Early Language Development: Spirals for babies and toddlers

by Marion Nash, Jackie Lowe & David Leah

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?

National research shows that...

Understanding Transitions in the Early Years: Supporting Change through Attachment and Resilience

by Anne O'Connor

There are many transitions that children experience before they are five, including the first major transition from home to an early years setting. Successive changes can have a serious impact on young children...

Innocence, Knowledge and the Construction of Childhood: The contradictory nature of sexuality and censorship in children's contemporary lives

by Kerry H. Robinson

Innocence, Knowledge and the Construction of Childhood provides a critical examination of the way we regulate children's access to certain knowledge and explores how this regulation contributes to the construction...