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Playing to Learn
Sandra Smidt sets out to explain what play is and why it is so important as one of the key ways of learning, particularly - but not solely - for young children. She argues that all play is purposeful, and can only truly considered to be play when the child has chosen what to do, where and how to do it. Using case studies drawn from all over the world, Smidt challenges some of the prevailing myths relating to play and pays close attention to what it is that early years professionals need to do to interpret the play, understand its purpose for the child and sometimes extend it.
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The Excellence of Play
This edition has been fully updated to reflect changes to early childhood education policy, including the introduction of the Early Years Foundation Stage and new initiatives such as The Children's Plan and new OfSTED inspection arrangements. It includes contributions from some of the most renowned authors and experts in early childhood education across the world. All of the contributors are real experts in their fields and all are passionate about the excellence of play.
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Teaching Emerging Scientists
This book assists teachers in developing, implementing, and evaluating their science teaching and their students’ science learning. As teachers complete the reflections in this book, they will explore the what, why, and how they teach; their deep-seated, often unconscious feelings toward science teaching and learning; and their views on who has ownership of science through their science autobiography and other reflection opportunities.
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Moving On to Key Stage 1
This practical book offers a series of strategies for promoting learning that meets the needs and interests of Key Stage 1 pupils, ensuring that the move from the Early Years Foundation Stage to Key Stage 1 is a positive one.
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Science in the Early Years
Linking theory to practice and the Early Years Foundation Stage, the emphasis throughout the book is on recognizing young children as competent, creative thinkers and building on their ideas. The book is packed with critical questions and opportunities for reflection, to encourage the reader to think carefully about the role of the adult in supporting child-initiated learning and discovery.
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Playing Outdoors in the Early Years
In this engaging and stimulating guide, Ros Garrick considers every aspect of outdoor play - from its rationale in early childhood education, to incorporating it successfully into the curriculum and assessing its wider implications for teaching and learning. This new edition has been brought up-to-date with recent national and international research, the Every Child Matters Agenda and the Early Years Foundation Stage guidance.
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Working with Parents in Early Years Settings
This book explores the ways in which early years practitioners work with parents and families to enhance children's development, learning and well-being. It explores the need for close partnership working between staff and families, offers examples of good practice and encourages reflection and discussion of the issues involved. The book pays particular attention to the standards required to gain Early Years Professional Status but is of interest to anybody working in an early years setting or studying on Early Childhood courses.
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PE Lesson Plans Year R
New editions of the successful series of teaching plans to help non-specialist primary teachers to implement the physical education curriculum. Each book contains photocopiable lesson plans, with additional teacher notes, to help teach imaginatively and effectively. Each book covers the National Curriculum requirements for each year, covering games, gymnastic activities and dance in clearly labelled sections.
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Key Issues in Early Years Education
Unique in its range of topics and voices, and its determination to see the child as central to learning and development. Featuring chapters by key figures in the field of early childhood education and care including Lilian Katz, Janet Moyles and Mary Jane Drummond, this new edition again incorporates articles by students on a number of early childhood programmes.
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The Really Useful Book of ICT in the Early Years
Full of ideas and new thinking, this practical guide shows you how to: promote independence in children's use of ICT through resources like digital cameras and role-play toys; explore the nature of creativity through ICT, using it to support the more traditional areas of art, music, dance and writing; use ICT to enhance the physical and sensory aspects of outdoor learning experiences.
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Professionalism in the Early Years
This text is written by national and international authorities in the field, all of whom are involved in teaching, training and research or at policy level. The editors have been closely involved with development of the government agenda on professionalising the Early Years workforce. Professionalism in the Early Years covers a wide range of issues including: * routes to professionalism; * policy developments; * multi-professional collaboration and multi-agency working; * international perspectives; * rethinking professionalism; * key themes and issues within the Early Years workforce.
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Thinking and Learning About Maths in the Early Years
This highly practical and engaging text includes chapters on: why maths is often seen as 'hard' and what practitioners can do to help young children be more successful; exploring shapes, space, measures and patterns; how to make maths more fun and playful, using games, humour, stories and rhymes; using music and dance to enhance mathematical understanding; encouraging children to see the connection between maths and everyday experiences through, for example sorting, matching and guessing; and, creating an environment for mathematical development, indoors and out.
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Drama 3 - 5: A Practical Guide to Teaching Drama to Children in the Foundation Stage
This highly practical book shows early years practitioners how to teach drama and stage work to children from 3-5 years. Full of suggestions, activities and sample session plans that are set alongside intended 'learning objectives' of the Foundation Stage, the book prepares practitioners to lead and develop dramatic work with confidence and enthusiasm, whilst ensuring they understand the theory and the value behind each activity
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Creative Development
This book provides a range of activities to cover the Early Learning Goals for Creative Development. Divided into chapters, one for each cluster of Early Learning Goals, the activities provide comprehensive coverage of the Stepping Stones and Early Learning Goals. Chapters cover Exploring media and materials, Music, Imagination and Responding to experiences, and expressing and communicating ideas. Ideas include making a multi-textured patchwork quilt, setting up a range of role-play scenarios, creating a large outdoor natural weaving and moving to selected music.
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Stepping Stones to Success
A planned journey through the Foundation Stage for children and teachers. A collection of lesson plans for Foundation Stage to promote children's personal, social and emotional well-being.
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The Foundation Stage Teacher in Action
This is a fully revised and updated edition of the author's best selling book The Nursery Teacher in Action Second Edition. This book now includes an extended section on leadership, on managing the foundation stage and involving the team in monitoring and evaluating foundation stage practice. Curriculum, planning and assessment now reflect the new statutory guidance on the Foundation Stage Curriculum and Profile. The author reviews the implementation of the Foundation Stage and the Profile - positive developments and areas which are still proving challenging.
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Managing Behaviour in the Early Years
A practical guide for early years practitioners on managing children's behaviour in childcare and early years settings. Brimming with tips and suggestions on how practitioners can help children to learn, Janet Kay demonstrates how a variety of positive methods can encourage the development of appropriate behaviour. Accessibly and engagingly written, this guide will prove invaluable for early years' practitioners everywhere.
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Observing and Assessing for the Foundation Stage Profile
Vicky Hutchin details the practical processes required to make effective holistic assessments of young children's learning and achievements and explains how to meet statutory requirements. She shows how to set up observational systems which work across the Foundation Stage and how to involve both parents and children in the assessment process. A clear writing style, allied with numerous examples of real observations, real children's work and real contexts, ensure a down-to-earth focus on the key implementation issues, and their day-to-day implications for planning and practice.
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Cutting Skills: Photocopiable Activities to Improve Scissor Technique
Build robots, design flags, make spinning snakes, pack for a journey and learn how to develop scissor techniques without even noticing. Cutting Skills contains 48 pages of imaginative and challenging activities to help children to develop hand to eye co-ordination, motor skills and scissor control. the varied activities introduce and extend a wide range of cutting skills in a fun and original way. Teacher's Notes; Instructions; Cutting To a Point; Cutting Straight Lines; Cutting Curved Lines; Cutting Simple Objects; Cutting and Assembling; Cutting Along a Broken Line; Cutting along a Dotted Line; Cutting and Assembling More Complex Shapes; Cutting within Shapes.
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Play in Early Childhood
Based on the pioneering work of Mary D. Sheridan, this text is an introductory text which explains how childrens' play develops and how they develop as they play. This edition has been updated to meet the needs of early years workers and students on courses leading to awards in child care and education. It features: over 80 illustrations; descriptions of play at each stage of development, from birth to six years; outlines of different play sequences; information on children with special needs; practical advice on the adult's role in providing for play. The book forms a companion volume to "From Birth to Five Years" by the same author.
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