Books about Prekindergarten from Amazon.com

For Literacy in the Elementary School and Elementary Reading Methods and Strategies courses. Based on the same principles and guidelines of Tompkins' best-selling literacy text, this new volume addresses specific strategies for teaching reading and writing to children from Preschool to Grade 4. The author provides a solid foundation in the content of literacy instruction-phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension-liberally spiced with her trademark "minilessons" and replete with children's writing samples and authentic classroom vignettes. Included are a wealth of age-appropriate assessment tools, authentic classroom activities, and illustrative examples of how effective teachers engage children in preschool through primary grades in the captivating act of reading and writing..
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Focusing on the important ideas of geometry, this book shows how to investigate two- and three-dimensional shapes with very young students It introduces methods to describe location and position, explores simple transformations, and addresses visualization, spatial reasoning, and the building and drawing of constructions. Activities in each chapter pose questions that stimulate students to think more deeply about mathematical ideas. The CD-ROM features fourteen articles from NCTM publications. The supplemental CD-ROM also features interactive electronic activities, master copies of activity pages for students, and additional readings for teachers..
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A complete toolkit for assessing children's progress in language arts and math. Simple, ready-to-go evaluation sheets follow a month-by-month learning=expectations grid to ensure that all pre-K learning objectives are covered. Support materials include record-keeping forms to keep assessment data organized and send-home learning activities to reinforce targeted skills. For use with Grade PreK..
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This book shows how to improve learning outcomes for very young children using age-appropriate educational technologies and standards-based curriculum Organized around four general themes, it includes dozens of exciting lesson plans and activities as well as several essays examining pedagogical and classroom-management issues unique to this age group. Each unit includes useful tools such as writing extensions, Web and literature resources, and practical teaching tips.

FEATURES
Thematically organized curricular units keyed to technology and content area standards
Multiple assessment rubrics and a supplemental resources list for every unit
Multidisciplinary and constructivist approaches to teaching and learning.
Price: $20.00 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Co-published by MENC: The National Association for Music Education The purpose of the Strategies for Teaching series is to help music teachers implement the K-12 National Music Education Standards and MENC's Prekindergarten Standards. Hundreds of music teachers across the country participated in this project, the largest such participation in an MENC publishing endeavor. Each publication focuses on a specific curricular area and a particular level. Each includes teaching strategies based on the content and achievement standards, a preface and an introduction, and a resource list..
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