Transitions in the Early Years - Debating Continuity and Progression for Children in Early Education
By the time young children enter statutory education, they may have already attended a number of different educational settings, from entry to group settings outside home, to joining playgroup or nursery school. Each of these experiences is likely to affect children's capacity to adjust and to learn.This book focuses on children's experiences of personal and curricular transitions in early childhood.
How can architectural form respond to the unique needs of children and support and reinforce the pedagogy of a childrens centre? So much of the teaching in Early Learning revolves around the importance of a childs environment on their development. Over the last 100 years, many divergent philosophies have evolved with a wide breadth and depth of thinking and with an equally wide range of architectural responses. Children are a unique client with heightened sensory needs, special scale considerations and a totally different way of moving through and perceiving space to adults.
Featuring redesigned jackets, interiors, and up-to-date vocabulary throughout, Readers now have a fresh new look! Stunning photographs combine with lively illustrations and engaging, age appropriate stories in Readers, a multilevel reading program guaranteed to capture children's interests while developing their reading skills and general knowledge. With Readers, children will learn to read-and read to learn! Ring! Ring! Ring! It's the fire alarm! A house is on fire! The fire fighters are on their way!
Farm (First Facts) introduces children to the world of reading, with lively illustrations and simple text to help build confidence and development. Bursting with fun farm facts and figures, children will love flicking through and learning as they go. Questions such as "How do tractors work?" and "How do chickens lay eggs?" are answered. Fun and educational, these books are perfect for home-reading where children can indulge in their interests - a valuable teaching aid for both parents and teachers.
Meet the Radleys - Peter, Helen and their teenage children, Clara and Rowan, live in a typical suburban English town. They are an everyday family, averagely dysfunctional, averagely content. But, as their children have yet to find out, the Radleys have a devastating secret. In this moving, thrilling and extraordinary portrait of one unusual family, The Radleys asks what we grow into when we grow up, and explores what we gain - and lose - when we deny our appetites.
