Reinforce essential emergent reading, writing and math skills with these clever early childhood thematic books. Skill-based activities and patterns coded to the Early Childhood Interest Centers! Each book contains fun, reproducible, thematic activities, easy-to-make patterns and crafts, suggestions for children's literature, thematic poems, songs and fingerplays, simple recipes and much more! Developmentally appropriate for preschoolers and kindergarteners.
This publication is concerned with the early stages of language acquisition and is designed for use by early childhood teachers, nursery nurses, special education teachers and others working with children experiencing difficulties in learning to talk. Procedures are described that can be used to assess a child' s current skills and plan activities to increase communicative competence.
The programme described is based on a developmental sequence that moves the early skills of joint attention, turn-taking and appropriate play to the more complex skills of asking and answering questions.
The Druids and King Arthur: A New View of Early Britain
An exploration into the beliefs and origins of the Druids, this book examines the role the Druids may have played in the story of King Arthur and the founding of Britain. It explains how the Druids originated in eastern Europe around 850 B.C., bringing to early Britain a cult of an underworld deity, a belief in reincarnation, and a keen interest in astronomy.
It seems as if everyone is looking down on him. "Am I really so small - not very tall?" he asks, and discovers through an imaginative tale of possibilities that the answer really is, "Not at all!" Rhyming prose and 71 core sight words (a complete vocabulary list is included) give early readers confidence as they empathise with one small boy in a big world.
The Early National Period ( Eyewitness History Series)
The Early National Period examines the transformation of the fledgling American republic after the conclusion of the Revolutionary War in 1783 into a hearty and rapidly expanding nation by 1828.
