Early Childhood Books

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81. Malik Goes to School

    Examining the Language Skills of African American Students From Preschool-5th Grade

    By Holly K. Craig, Julie A. Washington

    Malik Goes to School: Examining the Language Skills of African American Students From Preschool-5th Grade synthesizes a decade of research by the authors, Holly Craig and Julie Washington, on the oral language and literacy skills of African American children from preschool to fifth grade. Their...

    Published September 20th 2005 by Psychology Press
82. Children's Thinking About Cultural Universals

    By Jere Brophy, Janet Alleman

    Drawing on interview data, the authors describe K-3 students' knowledge and thinking about basic aspects of the social world that are addressed in the elementary social studies curriculum. The interviews focused on human activities relating to nine cultural universals that are commonly addressed in...

    Published September 6th 2005 by Routledge
83. Media and the Make-Believe Worlds of Children

    When Harry Potter Meets Pokemon in Disneyland

    By Maya Gotz, Dafna Lemish, Hyesung Moon, Amy Aidman

    Series: Routledge Communication Series

    Media and the Make-Believe Worlds of Children offers new insights into children's descriptions of their invented or "make-believe" worlds, and the role that the children's experience with media plays in creating these worlds. Based on the results of a cross-cultural study conducted in the United...

    Published May 16th 2005 by Routledge
84. Negotiating Critical Literacies With Young Children

    By Vivian Maria Vasquez

    Series: Language, Culture, and Teaching Series

    Vivian Vasquez draws on her own classroom experience to demonstrate how issues raised from everyday conversations with pre-kindergarten children can be used to create an integrated critical literacy curriculum over the course of one school year. The strategies she presents are solidly grounded in...

    Published June 30th 2004 by Routledge
85. Mathematical and Analogical Reasoning of Young Learners

    Edited by Lyn D. English

    Series: Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series

    Mathematical and Analogical Reasoning of Young Learners provides foundational knowledge of the nature, development, and assessment of mathematical and analogical reasoning in young children. Reasoning is fundamental to understanding mathematics and is identified as one of the 10 key standards for...

    Published May 6th 2004 by Routledge
86. Childhood and Postcolonization

    Power, Education, and Contemporary Practice

    By Gaile S. Cannella, Radhika Viruru

    Series: Changing Images of Early Childhood

    This book opens the door to the effects of intellectual, educational, and economic colonization of young children throughout the world. Using a postcolonial lens on current educational practices, the authors hope to lift those practices out of reproducing traditional power structures and push our...

    Published March 24th 2004 by Routledge
87. Handbook of Family Literacy

    Edited by Barbara H. Wasik, Barbara Hanna Wasik

    The emerging field of family literacy, which cuts across early childhood education, early literacy development, parent education, adult education, and parent-child literacy interactions, has never had a comprehensive volume that pulls together and integrates its many interacting components. That is...

    Published February 22nd 2004 by Routledge
88. Engaging Young Children in Mathematics

    Standards for Early Childhood Mathematics Education

    Edited by Douglas H. Clements, Julie Sarama, Associate Edito DiBiase, Ann-Marie DiBiase

    Series: Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series

    Engaging Young Children in Mathematics: Standards for Early Childhood Mathematics Education brings together the combined wisdom of a diverse group of experts involved with early childhood mathematics. The book originates from the landmark 2000 Conference on Standards for Pre-kindergarten and...

    Published June 30th 2003 by Routledge
89. Teaching and Learning in the Early Years

    2nd Edition

    Edited by David Whitebread, Penelope Coltman

    Published February 12th 2003 by Routledge
90. On Reading Books to Children

    Parents and Teachers

    Edited by Anne van Kleeck, Steven A. Stahl, Eurydice B. Bauer

    On Reading Books to Children: Parents and Teachers brings together in one volume current research on adult book reading to children. The authors, drawn from around the world, are key researchers and eminent scholars from the fields of reading and literacy, child language, speech pathology, and...

    Published January 31st 2003 by Routledge