Everything for Early Learning is the perfect practice tool that every second grader needs to achieve success in school! Children work through fun and engaging activities that provide skill-and-drill in important reading, language arts, and mathematical skills. This 320 page workbook is full of bold, appealing illustrations that motivate young learners and features practice pages to ensure children master the essential skills with easy-to-understand directions. Features: Problem-solving, Deductive and analytical thinking, Fractions, Counting money, Main idea, Facts & opinions, Nouns & verbs, and Punctuation

Everything for Early Learning for first grade provides activities to help children learn these essential concepts: -numbers -addition -subtraction -measurement -spelling -vocabulary -reading -writing This math and language arts workbook supports current state standards. Everything for Early Learning provides children with the tools they need to think critically, solve problems, and succeed in school. This workbook for first grade guides children through a variety of colorful, engaging activities. Each activity supports early learning standards for math, language arts, and basic skills. An exceptional addition to at-home first grade curriculum, Everything for Early Learning covers these foundational skills and concepts: -numbers and counting -addition and subtraction -measurement -spelling and vocabulary -reading and writing The Everything for Early Learning series offers creative math and language arts activities that promote a fun approach to learning. With Everything for Early Learning, children start their educational journey equipped with skills for success!

Everything for Math and Reading is the perfect practice tool that every fourth grader needs to achieve success in school! Children work through fun and engaging activities that provide skill-and-drill in important reading and mathematical skills. This 320 page workbook is full of bold, appealing illustrations that motivate young learners and features practice pages to ensure children master the essential skills. This workbook also includes a complete answer key and easy-to-understand directions. Features: Problem-solving, Deductive and analytical thinking, Advanced math concepts, Multiplication & division, Fractions, Pre-algebra, Reading comprehension, Cause & effect, Research skills

After more than 30 years of teaching, Pat Barrett Dragan indeed knows everything needed to teach the first year of school. And she can teach you, too, with this step-by-step guide to creating a smoothly functioning, literacy-rich primary classroom. Dragan has virtually opened her file drawers and rounded up every detail to get you off to a good start with the three Rs and more. Even veteran teachers or teachers changing grade levels will find loads of helpful information-forms, checklists, activities, copyright-free poems, and reproducibles-all forming a substantive resource bible to keep handy for reference. Most important, Dragan highlights the best teaching and learning strategies culled from years of teaching and studying with the experts. Read Dragan and learn how to: Bond with your new class and create a happy and cohesive classroom community. Help your children develop organizational skills and self control. Inveigle, wangle, and keep children's attention to help them learn. Teach them to have confidence they can read--on the first day of school. Ensure that they learn to read and write well, whatever your reading program. Draw on their innate curiosity to develop their math and problem-solving skills. Use children's photos and artwork to help them practice reading and writing. Integrate children's literature and the arts into all curriculum areas. Work with English language learners and children having little help at home. As Dragan demonstrates, perhaps the most effective strategy for successful teaching is to infuse the school day with joyful learning throughout that magical first year.

Everything for Math and Reading is the perfect practice tool that every third grader needs to achieve success in school!Children work through fun and engaging activities that provide skill-and-drill in important reading and mathematical skills. This 320 page workbook is full of bold, appealing illustrations that motivate young learners and features practice pages to ensure children master the essential skills. This workbook also includes a complete answer key and easy-to-understand directions. Features: ~ Problem-solving ~ Deductive and analytical thinking ~ Multiplication & Divisions ~ Fractions, decimals & percents ~ Synonyms & antonyms ~ Reading comprehension

Everything for Early Learning is the perfect practice tool that every first grader needs to achieve success in school! Children work through fun and engaging activities that provide skill-and-drill in important reading, language arts, and mathematical skills. This 320 page workbook is full of bold, appealing illustrations that motivate young learners and features practice pages to ensure children master the essential skills with easy-to-understand directions. Features: ~ Problem-solving ~ Deductive and analytical thinking ~ Addition & subtraction ~ Telling Time ~ Consonant & vowel sounds ~ Rhyming ~ Sequencing

Over the years, educational scholars have proposed different conceptions of the curriculum. It is as if each scholar, researcher, university educator, and practitioner has developed her or his own personal definition. Unfortunately, there is no one single definition that everybody has agreed upon. Table 1 presents a sample of these definitions. A universal definition for curriculum may continue to be elusive and may even change through the years to address changes in the social forces and changes in related school goals. Nonetheless, the approach in curriculum development is consistent. Curriculum developers establish goals, develop experiences, designate content, and evaluate experiences and outcomes. Most curriculum developers consistently use such terms as curriculum planning, curriculum development, curriculum implementation, and curriculum evaluation, and many others to describe curriculum related activities. Unfortunately, without a consistent definition of curriculum, it is difficult for the curriculum developers to identify what it is that needs to be planned, developed, implemented, or evaluated. If curriculum developers rely on the curriculum experts’ definitions, they will find that their definitions identify a product, a program, determine goals and objectives, and learner experiences. However, its heterogeneity may be inspiring if curriculum developers rely on the components of each definition that depict the richness of the field, which in turn, can provide a foundation for contemporary content, concepts, and creativity. A curriculum is an anthology of learning experiences, conceived and arranged based on a program’s educational goals and the community’s social forces. Each curriculum manifests an image of what children "ought to be and become" (Biber, 1984, p. 303) grounded on the awareness of social values and a system that interprets those values into experiences for learners. The concept of curriculum, as a distinctive domain of study within education, arose from the demand to arrange, organize, and translate such awareness into educational programs of study. It integrates the historical study of the goals and content of schooling, analyses of curriculum documents, and analyses of the children’s experiences in school. The first formal curriculum text was published in 1918 (Bobbit, 1918), although in the United States contemporary curriculum study goes back to the early 1890's, when lead committees challenged the form and structure of public schooling. Presently curriculum development is fundamental at all educational levels.

Recent authoritative evidence suggests that an estimated 200 million children under five fail to achieve their developmental potential due to factors including poor health and nutrition and the lack of stable high quality care. A significant number of the world’s children today lack the basic rights to health, development and protection. In light of such statistics, early childhood services for young children have expanded around the world. The SAGE Handbook of Early Childhood Policy draws critical attention to policy in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) its relationship to service provision and its impact on the lives of children and families. The perspectives of leading academics and researchers from Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Australasia and Asia have been arranged around five key themes: Part 1: The Relationship Between Research, Policy And Practice: Country Case Studies Part 2: Equitable Early Childhood Services: Intervention to Improve Children’s Life Chances Part 3: Extending Practice: The Role of Early Childhood Services In Family Support Part 4: Participation, Rights and Diversity Part 5: Future Directions for Early Childhood Policy This handbook is essential reading for practitioners, stakeholders and others committed to working within early years services to achieve an awareness of policy and its implications for services and practice.