study and teaching (early childhood)

A collection of forty-five readings that reflects on teaching children in a diverse society, addressing such issues as culture, language, religion, inclusion, and socioeconomic status.

Contains eighteen lessons for the kindergarten through second-grade classroom that link mathematics with nonfiction and writing and includes activities that explore geometric shapes, measurement, and computations.

A collection of storytime outlines that focus on fourteen countries and cultural groups around the world, each with an opening song, suggested book titles, a flannel board or puppet story with patterns and instructions, fingerplays, actions rhymes, games, an annotated listing of videos and filmstrips, and crafts.

Presents three sets of phonemic awareness lessons for use in early reading programs, each with directions, reproducible activity sheets, and assessment tools.

Presents whole-language thematic units to present four featured books. Each unit contains reading lessons, writing ideas, bulletin board ideas, and curriculum activities.

Presents a method for systematic phonics instruction and assessment that explains how the teaching of sounds, letters, and the conventions of writing can be systematically used in everyday classroom experience.