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Early Childhood Education

This guide has resources specific to early childhood education, including online stories and activities, research and open access journals.

Featured Books at Your ATA Library

Hearing All Voices

After working in the field of early childhood education extensively, Jill McFarren Avilés and Erika Amadee Flores concluded that coaching educators from a holistic, culturally responsive, and strength-based perspective are three of the most powerful tools that will enhance the lives of young children and their families and contribute to equity in early childhood settings.

So Much More Than the ABCs

A comprehensive overview of what literacy development looks like for children from birth through age 5.

Why Play?

This book explains the importance of play in early childhood education. Each chapter focuses on a specific type of play, includes suggestions for putting theory into practice, and offers recommendations for language and information educators can use to help parents understand that play is not separate from learning.

Addressing Anxiety in Young Learners

This book will prepare educators to recognize anxiety issues in children ages 3-8, identify the associated behaviours, and work effectively with students who have anxiety symptoms.

Young Children's Amazing Math

Readers will learn how math is embedded in children's everyday lives, how daily routines contribute to the development of important math concepts, and what adults can do to foster the joy of early math learning.

Seven Crucial Conversations in Early Childhood Education

Readers will learn about seven major topics: systems of early care and education, diversity and children's rights, developmentally appropriate practice, perspectives on play, curriculum and pedagogy, the care of infants and toddlers, and families and family engagement.

Engaging Young Engineers

Boost young children's problem-solving skills and set them up for long-term success! Using a clear instructional framework and fun lesson plans, you'll guide your "emerging engineers" as they explore big ideas and develop new ways of thinking through engaging and challenging learning experiences.

The Kinderchat Guide to Elementary School Projects

Learn how to foster discovery, playfulness, imagination, and spontaneity into the elementary school academic curriculum, while keeping skills in the foreground. Offering lesson plans, scaffolded implementation techniques and methodologies, these unique and approachable projects are ready to use!

Listening to Learning

This book provides an innovative and practical way to assess children's learning while they are engaged in daily instructional routines. This book offers methods for observing, documenting, and analyzing what and how young children are learning

Focus on Developmentally Appropriate Practice

See how kindergarten educators provide integrated learning opportunities that you can adapt to create a robust learning environment that is play oriented and supportive of required mandates and expectations.

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