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Teaching Young Children
April 1, 2022

Promoting Spatial Orientation: A Math Activity for Teachers and Families

The following classroom activity and its home extension include step-by-step instructions and sample questions to promote conversations about spatial orientation to build children’s reasoning processes and spatial terminology.

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Lindsey Perry, Eloise Aniag Kuehnert, Leanne Ketterlin Geller
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Teaching Young Children
April 1, 2022

Message in a Backpack: Helping Your Preschool Child with Computational Thinking

Use the following tips to build on your preschooler’s math skills—including counting, pattern recognition, and sequencing to solve problems—to support computational thinking.

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Heather Lavigne, Jillian Orr, Marisa Wolsky
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Young Children
March 1, 2022

The Reading Chair: Spring 2022

Some new books too good to miss!

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Isabel Baker, Miriam Baker Schiffer
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DAP & Teacher Decision Making (On Demand)

Hear from DAP thought leaders, Sue Bredekamp and Barbara Willer, as they reflect on the importance of the core considerations to teacher decision making.
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Teaching Young Children
September 1, 2021

Now Read This: What About Children in Foster Care?

The books featured here provide a sampling of books and activities that can be used to introduce foster care and adoption into the early childhood classroom.

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Michelle Kimmy
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Blog
September 13, 2021

Select High-Quality Texts from the Fall 2021 Edition of Young Children

Knowing that readersÌýwill want toÌýdive into the rich collection ofÌýhigh-quality titlesÌýfeaturedÌýin this issue,ÌýYoung ChildrenÌýhasÌýintroducedÌýan onlineÌýcatalogue of the booksÌýfoundÌýinÌýthis issue’sÌýarticles.
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Make Transitions work for you

Make Transitions Work for You!

Early childhood educators know how challenging transitions can be! 51³Ô¹ÏÍø has collected a list of resources to support your unique ECE needs. Whether going back to school or looking for strategies in the classroom, 51³Ô¹ÏÍø is here to help.
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Teaching Young Children
July 1, 2021

Message in a Backpack™ Guiding Your Child’s Behavior

Challenging behaviors often happen when children feel they don’t have another way to express their feelings or another way to get what they need. Here's how to stay calm, patient, and consistent as you help your child understand your expectations.

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Keri Giordano
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Young Children
June 1, 2021

What Are You Thinking? Scaffolding Thinking to Promote Learning

Classrooms that incorporate child-directed experiences offer many opportunities for children to uncover their ideas, to generate questions, and to construct their own knowledge.

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Angela K. Salmon, María Ximena Barrera
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Young Children
June 1, 2021

Learning Stories: Observation, Reflection, and Narrative in Early Childhood Education

By encouraging teachers to recognize children as learners at any given moment, Learning Stories provide a way to document children’s strengths and improve instruction based on the interests, talents, and expertise of children and families.

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Isauro M. Escamilla
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Blog
May 28, 2021

Modeling Curiosity and Acceptance: My Kindergarten Lunch Story

As Asian American Pacific Islander Month comes to a close, I’ve been reflecting on my own experience as the daughter of Korean immigrants. Asian American Pacific Islander is a broad term encompassing many cultures and stories.

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Michelle Kang
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