The Evaluator's Cookbook - Exercises for Participatory Evaluation With Children and Young People
Participation is a vital element of working with children and young people - ensuring that services are meeting their needs as well as promoting citizenship, resilience and general well-being. "The Evaluator's Cookbook" contains 21 participatory evaluation exercises for use with children, young people and families/community groups.
Movement and Learning in the Early Years - Supporting Dyspraxia (DCD) and Other Difficulties
Movement is a key factor in young children's development and it can affect how they learn and how they feel. This book shows you how to observe a child as they move to allow for early identification of any problems and then tells you how to help. Dyspraxia (DCD) is on the increase in young children and easy movement can play a part in identifying other specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia and attention deficit disorder. Included is advice on: - Observing, analyzing, and assessing movement development - Building confidence - Helping with handwriting - Supporting mathematical development
The glittering fortunes of the Massot family, vastly wealthy owners of the last great aristocratic jewellery firms in Paris, were plunged into confusion seven years ago by the disappearance of Pierre Massot, its charismatic head. Now, his beautiful young wife Sophie has decided that the family and the firm must move on to survive. But some people have other ideas...
Early years stories for the Foundation Stage : ideas and inspiration for active learningThis book shows how to make use of the learning power of story for young children, providing original, themed stories and associated learning activities to promote young children's cognitive and emotional development. Stories in this highly practical resource stimulate the child's interest and acts as a springboard to related learning games designed to develop children's skills in the six foundation areas of learning: personal, social and emotional development; communication, language and literacy; mathematical development; knowledge and understanding of the world; physical development; and creative development.
Phonemic Awareness in Young Children - A Classroom Curriculum
Phonemic Awareness in Young Children complements any prereading program. From simple listening games to more advanced exercises in rhyming, alliteration, and segmentation, this best-selling curriculum helps boost young learners' preliteracy skills in just 15-20 minutes a day. Specifically targeting phonemic awareness - now known to be an important step to a child's early reading acquisition - this research-based program helps young children learn to distinguish individual sounds that make up words and affect their meanings.
