Designed for total learning success by experts in elementary education, Everyday Success Preschool features a variety of essential early learning skills in a single volume. Specifically for preschool-aged children, this workbook reinforces concepts and promotes learning in three key areas:Basic Skills (shapes, comparisons, opposites, same and different, and writing)Math (numbers 0Ð10, ordinal numbers, patterns, time, and money)Reading (alphabet, letter recognition, and reading comprehension) --Take learning one step further! To support independent thinking and discovery, Everyday Success offers a suggestion for children to continue each worksheet with a learning activity on their own. This encourages children to take what theyÕve learned and apply it to everyday situations, reinforcing their comprehension of the activity while exploring the world around them. --The Everyday Success(TM) series includes 288 full-color pages that will provide hours of education entertainment and make your child want to come back for more! Each workbook is spiral bound so that pages lay flat, and each book includes a complete answer key.

Designed for total learning success by experts in elementary education, Everyday Success Kindergarten features a variety of essential early learning skills in a single volume. Specifically for kindergarten-aged children, this workbook reinforces concepts and promotes learning in three key areas: Basic Skills (colors, same and different, comparison, opposites, classifying, letter recognition, and rhyming), Math (numbers, sequencing, ordinal numbers, graphing, thinking skills, time, and money), Reading (consonants, vowels, picture clues, inferences, predications, and reading comprehension). --Take learning one step further! To support independent thinking and discovery, Everyday Success offers a suggestion for children to continue each worksheet with a learning activity on their own. This encourages children to take what theyÕve learned and apply it to everyday situations, reinforcing their comprehension of the activity while exploring the world around them. --The Everyday Success(TM) series includes 288 full-color pages that will provide hours of education entertainment and make your child want to come back for more! Each workbook is spiral bound so that pages lay flat, and each book includes a complete answer key.

This innovative handbook offers special education teachers, career counselors, and parents a comprehensive range of tested techniques and strategies to help youngsters who are blind or visually impaired begin to build the skills they need for successful careers. It introduces specific activities for preparing visually impaired children from preschoolers through middle school for the next level of schooling and to become independent in daily life, confident about their career choices, and skillful on their future jobs.

The Daily 5, Second Edition retains the core literacy components that made the first edition one of the most widely read books in education and enhances these practices based on years of further experience in classrooms and compelling new brain research. The Daily 5 provides a way for any teacher to structure literacy (and now math) time to increase student independence and allow for individualized attention in small groups and one-on-one. Teachers and schools implementing the Daily 5 will do the following: Spend less time on classroom management and more time teaching Help students develop independence, stamina, and accountability Provide students with abundant time for practicing reading, writing, and math Increase the time teachers spend with students one-on-one and in small groups Improve schoolwide achievement and success in literacy and math. The Daily 5, Second Edition gives teachers everything they need to launch and sustain the Daily 5, including materials and setup, model behaviors, detailed lesson plans, specific tips for implementing each component, and solutions to common challenges. By following this simple and proven structure, teachers can move from a harried classroom toward one that hums with productive and engaged learners. What's new in the second edition: Detailed launch plans for the first three weeks Full color photos, figures, and charts Increased flexibility regarding when and how to introduce each Daily 5 choice New chapter on differentiating instruction by age and stamina Ideas about how to integrate the Daily 5 with the CAFE assessment system New chapter on the Math Daily 3 structure

Children are already learning at birth, and they develop and learn at a rapid pace in their early years. This provides a critical foundation for lifelong progress, and the adults who provide for the care and the education of young children bear a great responsibility for their health, development, and learning. Despite the fact that they share the same objective - to nurture young children and secure their future success - the various practitioners who contribute to the care and the education of children from birth through age 8 are not acknowledged as a workforce unified by the common knowledge and competencies needed to do their jobs well. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 explores the science of child development, particularly looking at implications for the professionals who work with children. This report examines the current capacities and practices of the workforce, the settings in which they work, the policies and infrastructure that set qualifications and provide professional learning, and the government agencies and other funders who support and oversee these systems. This book then makes recommendations to improve the quality of professional practice and the practice environment for care and education professionals. These detailed recommendations create a blueprint for action that builds on a unifying foundation of child development and early learning, shared knowledge and competencies for care and education professionals, and principles for effective professional learning. Young children thrive and learn best when they have secure, positive relationships with adults who are knowledgeable about how to support their development and learning and are responsive to their individual progress. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 offers guidance on system changes to improve the quality of professional practice, specific actions to improve professional learning systems and workforce development, and research to continue to build the knowledge base in ways that will directly advance and inform future actions. The recommendations of this book provide an opportunity to improve the quality of the care and the education that children receive, and ultimately improve outcomes for children.

Physical and mental abuse, gang-related violence, homelessness and neglect are just a few of the dangers that a child must face. Child welfare officers, school social workers, and family service providers have been the primary line of defense against these hazards, but in order to provide a more effective form of social care, these fields must be seen as an integrated whole. They must also have the skill to act as multidisciplinary teams. Taken from an issue of the journal Early Child Development and Care, Reassessing Social Work Practice with Children provides professionals with a dynamic orientation that offers a holistic approach to social work practice with children. This view encompasses any and all measures of practice designed to protect and promote the bio-psycho-social development of children, including education, protective services, and substitutive services.