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Creating Successful Environments for Babies and Young Children
This book explores the importance of the environment in the Early Years and its effect on learning and emotional development. It provides examples of ...
This book will help you to understand what works for the growing brain, and (even more important) what doesn't! It is more and more evident that HOW c...
This practical book offers a scientific framework for the early years that is divided into four key areas: biological science, physical science, earth...
Assessment in the early years
Practitioners working within the EYFS are still uncertain of exactly how to manage assessment. This book will take them through the process step by st...
Again! Again!
What are schemas and why do they matter? Again! Again! provides an introduction to understanding and supporting schemas and schema play in young child...
Heuristic Play is a tightly described, but freely accessed activity, using a specific range of 'found' or everyday objects, and, in its pure sense, is...
Why is it that, when children play, some behave like butterflies, flitting around among the flowers of the activities on offer, landing for a moment b...
Offers practical advice to parents and carers wanting to guide and support young children who are troubled or distressed....
Translating research about child neuroscience into practice in education is a daunting prospect for most practitioners. In fact, many see it as fraugh...
The Dealing With Feelings stories explore very simple, familiar childhood experiences. They help children to process and understand a variety of emoti...
Putting theory into practice in the early years
An Anthology of Educational Thinkers provides an excellent introduction to the major groups of educational thinkers. Each thinker's views and theories...
Little Books with Big Ideas (10)
Help early learners develop their writing skills through these fun and stimulating activites. Remember writing is not just for indoors - expand your w...
This book starts you off on the serious job of investigating materials, processes, objects and events. Investigation is a key scientific skill and thi...
Progression in Play for Babies and Children
Making dens and shelters is a favourite childhood activity and has always been so. Dens and shelters provides a wealth of den making ideas which invol...
Little Books with Big Ideas (1)
Linking scientific exploration and creativity, this book offers you ideas for simple activities and links them to the concepts and goals for the Found...
Stage 1: 0-20Months
A wealth of great ideas for parents or carers of young babies....
16-36 Months
A wealth of great ideas for parents or carers of toddlers....
Little Books with Big Ideas (72)
Following the success of the Little Book of Investigations, this book goes one step further in size, scale and scope. It covers explorations indoors, ...
30-50 Months
A wealth of great ideas for parents or carers of pre-schoolers....
The control of large and fine muscles and the ability to feel, copy and continue a steady beat are all essential for learning, and particularly for le...
Little Books with Big Ideas (61)
Developing fine motor skills is a key feature in learning to read and write. Many children need additional help to develop these skills in the Early Y...
Little Books with Big Ideas (2)
Hundreds of ideas for role play, grouped so you and the children can incorporate linked themes into your setting and develop role play in more than on...
Gregory is having a bad day. It's raining and he can't go outside to play. Nothing is going right ... until the sun comes out. Maybe Gregory will have...
Brain-based Learning for the Foundation Stage
The practical brain-based techniques described in this book include:? Introducing children to mind mapping? How to use music to maximise learning? Tea...
Little Books with Big Ideas (4)
Children learn best by doing, making, singing and exploring. This Little Book is jam packed with activites of all kinds for exploring phonics, with a ...
Little Books with Big Ideas (14)
Give your sand and water sessions a new lease of life with this fully updated Little Book. Split into two sections, it offers a range of activities fo...
Developing Imagination and Creativity Through Role Play
Role Play is an important part of every child's entitlement. This book guides you in planning, stimulating and organising role play inside and out. It...
This book gives ideas for introducing and extending experiences of sound and music for babies and young children. Each page spread contains a range of...
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Brain-based learning for the early years foundation stage
This new edition of The Thinking Child is fully-updated with reference to the new Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and Every Child Matters. The boo...
Brain-based Learning for the Early Years Foundation Stage
`An extremely practical, accessible guide to putting brain-based research into action in foundation stage settings. Children taught like this will be ...
Developing children as independent learners starts in the early years. Scientific evidence as well as the experience of experts confirms that children...
Another book in this popular Baby and Beyond series, showing progression in familiar activities. Going Out takes sixteen ideas for simple excursions ,...
Hundreds of Ideas for Independent Learning in the Early Years
Sally Featherstone and Ros Bayley, highly respected Early Years consultants and trainers, have written this book for practitioners working with childr...
Little Books with Big Ideas (3)
A huge range of ideas for outdoor games and activities....
40-60+ Months
A wealth of great ideas for parents or carers of four and five year olds....
Mark Making: Progression in Play for Babies and Children gives ideas for introducing and extending mark making activities and experiences for babies a...
Tell Me a Story helps practitioners to build progression into a favourite part of the day for all children. Matched to the development stages of the E...
Sustaining Shared Thinking deals with the questions; what are thinking skills, how do they develop, where do they 'fit' in the curriculum and what sho...