Eighteen number rhymes help preschool children develop and reinforce number skills.

Shows you how to establish an effective daily read-aloud routine to take charge of your baby's future understanding and success.

Get every child ready to read and on the road to becoming a lifelong reader! Reading for Every Child: Phonemic Awareness provides kindergarten through first-grade teachers with instructions and stimulating activities that are founded on the latest research. This book includes teacher tips to help students auditorily recognize and identify phonemes, picture and letter cards, and a pronunciation chart. This 80-page book supports Reading First and aligns with Common Core State Standards.

This file will tell you everything you want to know about young children learning mathematics. Starting Out explores the steps involved in learning the counting numbers, the subtleties of more and less and difference, and how pattern-making sets the basis for an understanding of algebra.

In light of recent standards-based and testing movements, the issue of play in childhood has taken on increased meaning for educational professionals and social scientists. This second edition of Play From Birth to Twelve offers comprehensive coverage of what we now know about play, its guiding principles, its dynamics and importance in early learning. These up-to-date essays, written by some of the most distinguished experts in the field, help students explore: all aspects of play, including new approaches not yet covered in the literature how teachers in various classroom situations set up and guide play to facilitate learning how play is affected by societal violence, media reportage, technological innovations and other contemporary issues which areas of play have been studied adequately and which require further research.