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Behavior

BEH-1.2B Preparing to Integrate Students with Behavioral Disorders, 1991, Robert Gable, Virginia Laycock, Sharon Maroney & Carl Smith
This book provides guidelines to assist in the integration of students with behavioral disorders.

BEH-1.3B Teaching Students with Behavioral Disorders: Basic Questions & Answers, 1991, Timothy Lewis, Juane Heflin & Samuel DiGangi
This slim volume addresses questions that classroom teachers commonly ask about instructional issues, classroom management, teacher collaboration, and assessment and identification of students with emotional and behavioral disorders.

BEH-1.4B Moving On: Transitions for Youth with Behavioral Disorders, 1991, Michael Bullis & Robert Gaylord-Ross
This book presents practical approaches to working with students in vocational settings and provides examples of successful programs and activities.

BEH-1.5B Behaviorally Disordered? Assessment for Identification & Instruction, 1991, Bob Algozzine, Kathy Ruhl & Roberta Ramsey
This book discusses systematic screening procedures and the need for functional assessment procedures that will facilitate provision of services to students with emotional and behavioral disorders.

BEH-1.6B Teaching Young Children with Behavioral Disorders, 1991, Mary Kay Zabel
This book highlights the applications of PL 99-457 and delineates a variety of interventions that focus on young childen and their families.

BEH-1.7B Conduct Disorders and Social Maladjustments: Policies, Politics, & Programming, 1991, Frank Wood, Christine Cheney, Daniel Cline, Kristina Sampson, Carl Smith & Eleanor Guetzloe
This book examines the issues associated with providing services to students who exhibit acting-out behaviors in school.

BEH-1.8B Programming for Aggressive and Violent Students, 1991, Richard Simpson, Brenda Smith Miles, Brenda Walker, Christine Ormsbee & Joyce Anderson Downing
This book addresses issues that educators and other professionals face in contending with episodes of violence and aggression in the schools.

BEH-1.9B Reducing Undesirable Behaviors, 1991, Lewis Polsgrove (Ed.)
This book provides procedures to reduce undesirable behavior in the schools and lists specific recommendations for using the procedures

BEH-2.1B 1-2-3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2-12 (3rd Edition), 2003, Thomas Phelan
The third edition of 1-2-3 Magic addresses the difficult task of child discipline by outlining strategies for controlling obnoxious behavior, encouraging good behavior, and strengthening the parent-child relationship.

BEH-2.2B Practical Ideas for Addressing Challenging Behaviors, 1999, Susan Sandall & Michaelene Ostrosky (Eds) This monograph shows how teachers can more effectively prevent, identify, and address challenging behaviors through a positive behavioral approach. Most challenging behaviors can be addressed without removing children from inclusive environments when parents and teachers use positive behavioral support.

BEH-2.3B Challenging Behaviors in Early Childhood Settings-Creating a Place for All Children, 2004, Susan Hart Bell, Victoria Carr, Dawn Denno, Lawrence J. Johnson, Louise R. Phillips
This book is for early childhood teachers and others in self-contained or inclusive settings for children with and without disabilities. It is filled with strategies and resources to help address a wide range of challenging behaviors. Readers will learn how to assess the classroom environment and link effective behavioral interventions to developmentally appropriate curriculum and teaching practices.

BEH-2.4B Oh Behave! Sensory Processing and Behavioral Strategies - A Practical Guide for Clinicians, Teachers, and Parents, 2002, Maryann Colby Trott
In this booklet, parents and teachers and therapists will gain a better understanding of basic behavioral strategies for young children. Information on how sensory issues or challenges have an impact on behavior is highlighted. For many children, understanding the impact of sensory challenges on behavior is key in understanding how to teach a child more appropriate behaviors.

BEH-2.5B Conscious Discipline-7 Basic Skills for Brain Smart Classroom Management, 2001, Becky Bailey
This book is based on current brain research, child development, and developmentally appropriate practices. It provides information on how to create positive school and classroom environments by fostering the emotional intelligence of teachers and children.

Child Care

ChC-1.0B Caring for Infants and Toddlers, Volumes I & II, 1991, Diane Trister Dodge, Amy Laura Dombro & Derry Gosselin Koralek
This two volume set of training materials helps caregivers acquire knowledge of child development and develop the care-giving skills needed to nurture that growth and development. Trainer's Guide is ChC-1.8B.

ChC-1.1B Child Care and Ill Children and Healthy Child Care Practices, 1994, NAEYC
This guide is designed as a reference to help you identify resources on two related topics; children's health in child care settings, and the care of sick children.

ChC-1.2B Healthy Young Children: A Manual for Programs, 1991, Abby Shapiro Kendrick, et.al.
The country's leading authorities in health care and early childhood education have combined their expertise in this comprehensive resource manual.

ChC-1.3B Model Child Care Health Policies, 1993, Susan Aronson, Herberta Smith & JoAnn Martin
The model policies in this book have been written for child care or educational facilities of any type.facilities, and drop-in facilities.

ChC-1.4B Supporting Young Learners: Ideas for Preschool and Day Care Providers, 1991, Nancy Altman Brickman & Lynn Spencer Taylor
This book provides practical ideas and strategies on using the High/Scope curriculum in early childhood programs.

ChC-1.7B Opening Your Door to Children: How to Start a Family Day Care Program, 1990, Kathy Modigliani, Marianne Reiff & Sylvia Jones

ChC-1.8B A Trainer's Guide to Caring for Infants and Toddlers, 1991, Diane Trister Dodge & Derry Gosselin Koralek
This trainer's guide accompanies the two-volume set: ChC-1.0B. The guide is written for anyone involved in staff training.

ChC-1.9B Day Care For All Children: Integrating Children with Special Needs into Community Child Care Settings, Nancy Gaumer
A resource manual for child care or preschool staff on including children with disabilities in typical settings.

Child Development

ChDev-1.0B Ages and Stages: Developmental Descriptions and Activities Birth through Eight Years, 1985, Karen Miller
The focus of this book is how developmental stages and behaviors show up in group child care settings.

ChDev-1.1B Beyond Self-Esteem: Developing a Genuine Sense of Human Value, 1990, Nancy E. Curry & Carl N. Johnson
Using a broader framework for understanding self-esteem, this book pulls together a knowledge base of recent child development research and practice; going beyond traditional, global measures of self-esteem, new measures offer a more differentiated and integrated picture of self-development.

ChDev-1.2B Character Development: Encouraging Self-Esteem & Self-Discipline in Infants, Toddlers, & Two-Year-Olds, 1991, Polly Greenberg
The purpose of this book is to encourage those who regularly spend many hours a week giving care to infants, toddlers, and two-year-olds to appreciate more fully the incredibly important character development work you're doing, and to encourage you to deepen both your understanding of child development and your child caring skills.

ChDev-1.3B Critical Issues for Children, 1997

ChDev-1.4B The Essential Partnership, 1989, Stanley Greenspan & Nancy Thorndike Greenspan
Draws on hundreds of case histories as Dr. Greenspan applies his ground-breaking findings on children's emotional development to the practical, everyday aspects of child care. Topics include children's self-esteem, fostering independence, handling tantrums and more.

ChDev-1.5B First Feelings: Milestones in the Emotional Development of your Baby and Child, 1985, Stanley Greenspan & Nancy Thorndike Greenspan
Tells you how to recognize the key stages of child's emotional growth from birth to age five, while guiding and enhancing early psychological development.

ChDev-1.7B Listen to the Children, 1986, Docia Zavitkovsky
Through stories of working and playing with children, the reader is lead to greater insight on how children learn.

ChDev-2.0B Helping Young Children Develop through Play: A Practical Guide for Parents, Caregivers, and Teachers, 1988, Janet K. Sawyer & Cosby S. Rogers
An easy-to-read overview for practitioners of why play is so important to children's learning. Contains detailed, practical suggestions on how adults can foster play with infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and school-agers.

ChDev-2.1B The Child with Special Needs, 1998, Stanley Greenspan and Serena Weider
This book integrates research and clinical experience into a definitive guide to raising a child with special needs. Thetext provides information on how to go beyond labels to find the child's strengths and challenges. Strategies and techniques for working with children with developmental disabilities are provided along with case histories of children and families.

ChDev-2.2B The Challenging Child: Understanding, Raising, and Enjoying the Five "Difficult" Types of Children, 1995, Stanley Greenspan
This book provides information leading to insight and understanding of five basic types of temperament. Ideas and strategies for matching parenting styles with a child's unique needs are described.

ChDev-2.3B When Preschoolers Are Not "On Target" in Their Development: A Guide for Parents, Early Childhood Educators, and Child Care Providers, 1998
This booklet provides information on the early identification of learning disabilities and appropriate intervention strategies.

ChDev-2.4B The Bipolar Child, 1999, Demitri Papolos and Janice Papolos
This book provides the latest information on the diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of Bipolar Disorder in children. Information on medication, treatment, and advocacy is given along with additional resources and references for more information.

ChDev-2.5B Thrifty Nifty Stuff for Little Kids: Developmental Play Using Home Resources, 1995, Dee Blose & Laura Smith
This book is designed to provide parents and therapists with ideas for low-cost therapeutic toys and equipment for children birth-5 years. The materials and play ideas are useful for children with and without special needs. There is a section on adapting play and materials for children with sensory integration issues or other special needs.

ChDev-2.6B So This is Normal Too? Teachers and Parents Working Out Developmental Issues in Young Children, 1995, Deborah Hewitt
This book presents easy-to-understand information about challenging behaviors that young children exhibit and suggestions for ways that parents and teachers can respond to the behaviors while teaching appropriate behaviors.

ChDev-2.7B From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development, 2000, Jack Shonkoff, Chair
This book provides a summary of recent findings in neurobiology, behavioral and social sciences that impact how we understand how children grow, learn and develop. The text offers research findings and recommendations on how to best use the research in our parenting, early childhood teaching, and policy-making.

ChDev-2.8B Touchpoints 3 to 6 - Your Child's Emotional and Behavioral Development, 2001, T. Berry Brazelton & Joshua Sparrow
The authors discuss how recognizing predictable touchpoints in children's development can provide a meaningful window into intellectual and emotional development and help parents and others handle behavioral issues with greater sensitivity, empathy, and effectiveness. The second part of the book covers a wide range of topics and challenges including: adoption, ADD, disabilities, depression, sensory integration dysfunction, speech delays and many, many others.

ChDev-2.9B Quirky Kids: Understanding and Helping Your Child Who Doesn't fit in-When to Worry and When not to Worry, 2003, Perri Klass, M.D., Eileen Costello, M.D.
This book provides an enlightened discussion of children who learn differently due to temperament, sensory integration challenges, autism, learning disorders or just "quirkiness". Chapters include arriving at a diagnosis, family life, school issues through high school, finding services, making friends.

ChDev-3.0B Ages & Stages Learning Activities, 2004, Elizabeth Twombly & Ginger Fink

ChDev-3.1B The Dancing Dialogue - Using the Communicative Power of Movement with Young, 2006, Suzi Tortora
This book is the first approach to help parents and professionals focus on the importance of observing the nonverbal expression of children in assessment, education and therapeutic settings.

ChDev-3.2B Starting Smart: How Early Experiences Affect the Brain, 2nd Edition, 2000, Zero to Three

Curriculum

CURR-1.0B AEPS Curriculum for Three to Six Years: Vol. 4, Second Edition, 2002, Diane Bricker, Misti Waddell
This developmentally sequenced curriculum is used after the AEPS Test is completed and scored. The curriculum allows professionals to match the child's IFSP/IEP goals and objectives with activity-based interventions. The curriculum includes intervention guidelines, suggested activities for each developmental area, teaching consideratio and suggestions, recommendations for environmental arrangements and strategies for incorporating the activities into the child's daily routines. The curriculum can be used in homes, preschools, public schools, or child care settings.

CURR-1.1B The Carolina Curriculum for Preschoolers with Special Needs (2nd Edition), 2004, Nancy Johnson-Martin, Susan Attermeier & Bonnie Hacker
This curriculum was developed for use with children from 24-60 months of age with mild to severe disabilities. It links assessment with intervention and encourages parents and professionals to work collaboratively.

CURR-1.4B Complete Early Childhood Curriculum Resource, 1991, Mary A. Sobut & Bonnie Neuman Bogen Success-oriented learning experiences for all children.

CURR-1.6B The Creative Curriculum for Preschool, Fourth Edition, 2002, Diane Trister Dodge, Laura J. Colker & Cate Heroman
This packet contains three parts: (1) The Creative Curriculum; (2) A Teacher's Guide to Using The Creative Curriculum Developmental Continuum Assessment System; and (3) The Creative Curriculum Developmental Continuum for Ages 3-5.

CURR-2.1B Engaging Children's Minds: The Project Approach, 1994, Lillian G. Katz & Sylvia C. Chard
An innovative and resourceful method for teaching young children.

CURR-2.2B Enhancing Cognitive Development through Music and Movement, 1993, Karen K. Bales, Susan M. Dummer, Linda R. Hull & Priscilla H. Polenzani
A music program developed by a music therapist and the Waukegan Early Entry Preschool Staff.

CURR-2.3B Environmental Arrangements Intervention Manual, 1991, Annette Skellenger, Samuel Odom, Mary McEvoy & Scott McConnell

CURR-2.4B A Guide for Supervisors and Trainers on Implementing the Creative Curriculum, 1988, Diane Trister Dodge

CURR-2.5B High Scope Child Observation Record for ages 2-1/2 to 6 (2nd Edition), 2003, High Scope Educational Research Foundation
The Child Observation Record kit includes the User Guide, COR Observation Items Book, Planning children's Activities Book, Parent Guide in English and Spanish, Child Anecdotes Record Booklet, Child Information and Developmental Summary Form, Family Report Form (English and Spanish), Class Summary Form, Key Experiences Poster, and Key Experiences/COR Items laminated poster. The kit contains all of the information needed to learn about, study, or plan to implement the Child Observation Record in an Early Childhood Classroom for children that have typical, at risk, or developmentally delayed development. The High Scope Preschool COR is an observation-based assessment tool.

CURR-2.6B High Scope K-3 Curriculum Series: Language and Literacy, 1991, Jane M. Maehr
See how to help children use oral and written language in a dynamic learning environment; packed with useful information and essential teaching strategies.

CURR-2.7B High Scope K-3 Curriculum Series: Learning Environment, 1992, Charles Hohmann & Warren Buckleitner
Offers essential information on the physical setting, daily schedules and teacher-child interaction. Strategies for extending learning and promoting a positive social climate.

CURR-2.8B High Scope K-3 Curriculum Series: Mathematics, 1991, Charles Hohmann
Discusses the content of mathematics as it relates to children's stages of thinking and describes your role in supporting and guiding children's math experiences; over 100 hands-on activities designed for small-group learning.

CURR-2.9B I Am! I Can! Volume I: Keys to Quality Child Care - A Guide for Directors, 1992, Grace L. Mitchell, Nancy C. Bailey, Lois F. Dewsnap
Practical step-by-step guide to setting up and operating a child care center.

CURR-3.1B The Hundred Languages of Children: The Reggio Emilia Approach to Early Childhood, 1993, Carolyn Edwards, Lella Gandini & George Forman (2 Copies)

CURR-3.2B ITI: The Model - Integrated Thematic Instruction, 1993, Susan Kovalik & Karen Olsen
Comprehensive book on curriculum integration for grades K-6. Explains how to create brain-compatible classroom; loaded with curriculum examples, implementation tips, starting points and timelines.

CURR-3.4B Let's Read About Finding Books They'll Love to Read, 1993, Bernice E. Cullinan
This book is for people who want to hook a so-so reader as well as those who want to feed books to omnivorous readers.

CURR-3.5B A Guide for Parents and Teachers: The New Language of Toys, Teaching Communication Skills to Children with Special Needs, 2004, Sue Schwartz
The 3rd Edition of this book features more than 60 toys with short, scripted conversations that parents and therapists can use when playing with children. This edition helps parents and professionals use toys and play activities to aid in children's language development.

CURR-3.7B Places and Spaces for Preschool and Primary: Indoors, 1987, Jeanne Vergeront
This booklet provides practical ideas for designing spaces for young children to learn in developmentally appropriate settings.

CURR-3.8B Places and Spaces for Preschool and Primary: Outdoors, 1988, Jeanne Vergeront
This booklet provides practical ideas and examples for designing outdoor play spaces for young children.

CURR-3.9B Planning a Theme-Based Curriculum, Ages 4-5, 1993, Carla F. Berry, Gayle Mindes (2 Copies)
The model outlined in this book uses projects or themes to organize activities based on the natural interests of young children.

CURR-4.0B Planning Environments for Young Children: Physical Space, 1969, Sybil Kritchevsky & Elisabeth Prescott
Traffic jams in the classroom? Children wandering aimlessly? See how the organization of space can make a difference; it can even diminish discipline problems.

CURR-4.1B Play and Playscapes, 1992, Joe L. Frost
This book deals with all aspects of play, child development, and play environment design, including play value and safety.

CURR-4.2B Playing: A Kid's Curriculum, ages 2-6, 1993, Sandra J. Stone
Provides educators with a guide for using play activities with young children purposefully and confidently.

CURR-4.4B Project Construct: A Curriculum Guide - Understanding the Possibilities, 1992, Deborah G. Murphy & Stacie G. Goffin
Explores pertinent issues of constructivist education, including educational aims, planning day-to-day decision-making, assessment, and evaluation of progress.

CURR-4.5B Reducing School Violence through Conflict Resolution, 1995, David W. Johnson & Roger T. Johnson
This book offers an approach that involves interrelated programs for preventing violence and helping students learn how to resolve conflicts constructively. The authors discuss how schools can create a cooperative environment where students learn how to negotiate and medicate peer conflicts.

CURR-4.6B Seven Ways of Knowing, 1991, David Lazear
A handbook of techniques for expanding intelligence.

CURR-4.7B Seven Ways of Teaching, 1991, David Lazear
The artistry of teaching with multiple intelligences.

CURR-4.8B A Study Guide to Young Children in Action, 1983, Mary Hohmann

CURR-4.9B The Teacher's Idea Book, 1989, Michelle Graves
Daily planning ideas around the Key Experiences of the High/Scope Curriculum.

CURR-5.0B Theme-a-Saurus, 1989, Jean Warren
The great big book of mini-teaching themes.

CURR-5.2B Transdisciplinary Play-Based Intervention: Guidelines for Developing a MeaningfulCurriculum for Young Children, 1993, Toni Linder (2 Copies)
This book provides creative strategies for promoting cognitive, social-emotional, communication and language, and sensorimotor development. Transdisciplinary play-based intervention is an extension of transdisciplinary play-based assessment.

CURR-5.3B Tribes: A Process for Social Development and Cooperative Learning, 1987, Jeanne Gibbs
A process for social development and cooperative learning.

CURR-5.5B Whole Language Literature Activities for Young Children, 1994, Bonnie Neuman Bogen & Mary Sobut
Teachers using a whole language approach in their classroom would find the activities for 50 children's literature books useful.

CURR-5.6B Educating Young Children - Active Learning Practices for Preschool and Child Care Programs (2nd Edition), 2002, Mary Hohmann & David Weikart
This book presents a comprehensive, up-to-date description of the High/Scope Preschool Curriculum. High/Scope encourages and supports children's initiatives and active learning experiences.

CURR-5.7B Young Children: Active Learners in a Technological Age, 1994, June L. Wright & Daniel D. Shade
Leading experts tell us why computers, when used properly, belong in early childhood programs-and they tell us how to integrate technology to benefit children's cognitive and social development.

CURR-6.3B The Cognitively Oriented Curriculum: Room Arrangements and Materials, 1978, High/Scope Educational Research Foundation

CURR-6.4B The Cognitively Oriented Curriculum: The Daily Routine-Small Group Times High/Scope Educational Research Foundation

CURR-6.5B The Cognitively Oriented Curriculum: Children as Music Makers, 1979, High/Scope Educational Research Foundation

CURR-6.7B One Child, Two Languages: A Guide for Preschool Educators of Children Learning English as a Second Language, 1997, Patton O. Tabors

CURR-6.8B Learning Language and Loving It: A Guide to Promoting Children's Social and Language Development in Early Childhood Settings, 1992, Elaine Weitzman

CURR-6.9B Linking Language: Simple Language and Literacy Activities throughout the Curriculum, 1999, Robert Rockwell, Degra Reichart Hoge, & Bill Searcy
This guide provides ideas and activities for weaving language development and early literacy into your daily schedule.

CURR-7.0B An Activity-Based Approach to Early Intervention (3rd Edition), 2004, Kristie Pretti-Frontczak & Diane Bricker
This book provides thorough, research-based information on Activity-Based Intervention and strategies for using ABI with children and families. It is designed to be used with children birth - 5 with disabilities or who are at risk for disabilities in self-contained or inclusive classrooms. ABI is an approach designed specifically to help children meet their individual goals within the context of daily activities.

CURR-7.1B Unsmiling Faces: How Preschools Can Heal, 1996, Lesley Koplow (Ed.)
This book provides early childhood professionals with a framework for understanding the emotional lives of young children. It offers background, examples, ideas and lesson plans for creating an emotionally-based curriculum.

CURR-7.2B Starting Small: Teaching Tolerance in Preschool and the Early Grades, 1997, Teaching Tolerance Project
This book profiles 7 classrooms across the country in which teachers are helping young children build inclusive, equitable, and caring communities across many diverse settings and situations. The book can be used alone or in combination with a companion videotape. See CURR-5.1V

CURR-7.3B Reading & Writing Grade by Grade: Primary Literacy Standards for Kindergarten through Third Grade, 1999, New Standards Primary Literacy Committee
This 3-piece set consists of a book and two CD-ROM sets. The set provides information on standards and effective practices for teaching reading and writing in grades K-3. Standards, examples of children's writing and oral reading, videos of children discussing books are illustrated on the CD-ROMs that accompany the book.

CURR-7.4B Promoting Learning through Active Interaction: A Guide to Early Communication with Young Children Who Have Multiple Disabilities, 2000, M. Diane Klein, Deborah Chen & Michele Haney
This culturally sensitive, field-tested curriculum is designed for use with infants and young children with multiple disabilities who have not yet developed a functional communication system. PLAI show teachers, parents, and therapists how to recognize early communication cues, identify child's likes and dislikes, establish predictable routines as a context for intervention, and use turn-taking games to teach a child how to initiate interaction. This curriculum has a companion video- CURR-5.4V.

CURR-7.5B The ABCs of Helping Young Children Become Good Readers and Writers: A Monograph for Teachers (First in a Series), 2001, Illinois State Board of Education

CURR-7.6B Read, Play, and Learn! Storybook Activities for Young Children, 1999, Toni Linder

CURR-7.7B Connecting Content, Teaching, and Learning (Third Edition The Creative Curriculum for Early Childhood), 2000, Diane Trister Dodge, Laura J. Colker, Cate Heroman

CURR-7.8B Making Music with the Young Child with Special Needs: A Guide for Parents, 1993, Elaine Streeter
This book offers an introduction to using music with young children with special needs at home or in preschool settings.

CURR-7.9B Smart Start: Preschool Movement Curriculum Designed for Children of All Abilities, 1995, Janet Wessel & Lauriece Zittel
This book provides preschool and early childhood special education teachers with a curriculum guide and resource materials for a movement program in their classrooms. The curriculum is designed for young children, ages 3-5, with and without special needs.

CURR-8.0B Teaching Children to Read: An Evidence-Based Assessment of the Scientific Research Literature on Reading and its Implications for Reading Instruction, 2000, National Reading Panel

CURR-8.1B Put Reading First - The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read K - 3rd grade, 2001, C. Ralph Adler, Ed.
This book and companion parent guide is based on the research review conducted by the National Reading Panel. The guide summarizes what we know about teaching children to read and provides effective teaching strategies.

CURR-8.2B Young Exceptional Children Monograph Series #3: Teaching Strategies: What to do to Support Young Children's Development (Monograph Series No. 3), 2001, Michaeline Ostrosky & Susan Sandall, Eds .
This monograph is a collection of articles that promote and support recommended practices in teaching young children with special needs. The strategies presented emphasize teachers becoming more responsive to the needs andabilities of young children. Strategies that are featured include: enhancing vocabulary through conversation and augmentative devices, embedding learning/teaching opportunities across the day, increasing the complexity of behavior, and using time delay.

CURR-8.3B Making Make-Believe, 1999, MaryAnn Kohl
This book is filled with over 125 ideas for simple, creative play and pretend activities for young children. Teachers and parents can use the ideas in this book to nurture creative and pretend play in preschools, child care settings, and homes.

CURR-8.4B Teaching Our Youngest: A Guide for Preschool Teachers and Child-Care and Family Providers (Second Copy), 2002, U.S. Department of Education (2 copies)
This book provides teachers and child-care leaders with teaching tips and strategies that are based on current research on how young children learn. It covers information on how to help children develop language abilities, literacy skills, and early number skills. Information on how to design an effective learning environment is also included.

CURR-8.5B Reading, Understanding, and Using Informational Text in the Elementary Classroom, 2003
This monograph presents a brief overview of research-based recommendations and strategies for teaching reading and comprehension. The monograph includes the Illinois Learning Standards related to reading and comprehension, a list of references, and a list of useful web sites.

CURR-8.6B Play: The Foundation that Supports the House of Higher Learning, 2003, Lisa Murphy
This book illustrates the importance of play, why we need to keep hands-on experiences in preschools and how to stay strong against current pressures to "hurry up and get them ready for kindergarten."

CURR-8.7B The Ooey Gooey Handbook, 2002, Lisa Murphy
This book provides descriptions of art, science, and outside play activities for young children. It highlights ideas, suggestions, tips and inspiration for engaging children in home and school settings.

CURR-8.8B The Affect-Based Language Curriculum (ABLC): An Intensive Program for Families, Therapists and Teachers, 2003, Stanley I. Greenspan, MD & Diane Lewis, MA, CCC/SLP

CURR-8.9B Everyday Art!, 2003, Diane Sutliff
This booklet provides a visual reference for any early childhood teacher to help plan & prepare materials for an art learning center.

CURR-9.0B Go Get Your Smock! 2nd Edition, 1999, Diane Sutliff
This book provides the background, ideas and activities that any early childhood teacher can use to explore art with young children.

CURR-9.1B Getting Started: Materials and Equipment for Active Learning Preschools, 1997, Nancy Vogel
This book provides detailed information to guide teachers in selecting materials and equipment based on active learning and the HighScope curriculum.

CURR-9.2B Shared Storybook Reading - Building Young Children's Language and Emergent Literacy Skills
2005, Helen K. Ezell & Laura M. Justice
In this book, professionals and parents will learn how to engage young children and children with disabilities in reading stories. Step-by-step strategies will help teachers and parents create a fun, enriching reading atmosphere, work with children that have developmental delays, and work effectively with children individually and in small groups.

CURR-9.3B The Power of Observation
1999, Judy R. Jablon, Amy Laura Dombro, Margo L. Dichtelmiller
This book offers basic information on using classroom-based observations to enhance and improve effective teaching practices in early childhood and elementary settings.

CURR-9.4B Early Learning Environments That Work
2001, Rebecca Isbell and Betty Exelby
This book explores how to design and create early learning environments to enhance and promote children's growth and development.

CURR-9.5B Creating Effective Learning Environments
2004, Karyn Wellhousen & Ingrid Crowther

CURR-9.6B Basics of Developmentally Appropriate Practice
2006, Carol Copple and Sue Bredekamp
This book describes the core concepts of Developmentally Appropriate Practice and illustrates how the practices can be applied everyday.

CURR-9.901B The Creative Curriculum Study Starters, Vol. 2 - A Step-by-Step Guide to Project Based Investigations in Science and Social Studies, 2005, Cate Heroman
This collection of 6 Study Starters helps teachers get started on a variety of projects in science and social studies while encouraging the development of literacy, math, arts, and technology skills in young children.

CURR-9.902B Mathematics - The Creative Curriculum Approach, 2007, Juanita Copley, Candy Jones & Judith Dighe
This book expands on the Creative Curriculum by offering information, ideas and strategies for teaching mathematics in everyday experiences and activities.

CURR-9.903B Teaching by Design - Using Your Computer to Create Materials for Students with Learning Differences,
2005, Kimberly Voss
This guide book offers step-by-step instructions and design strategies for creating or adapting educational materials and visual schedules for children with disabilities. The book includes a CD-ROM of templates that cover a variety of customized educational materials.

CURR-9.904B An Activity Based Approach to Developing Young Children's Social Emotional, 2007, Jane Squires & Diane Bricker
This practical guide gives professionals that work with young children a systematic way of identifying and addressing social
emotional health concerns for children birth to 5 years of age. The strategies offered in the book focus on embedding intervention efforts into the daily actitivites of children and their caregivers. The book includes experimental editions of the Environmental Screening Questionnaire and the Social Emotional Assessment/Evaluation Measure.

CURR-9.905B Building Language Throughout the Year - The Preschool Early Literacy Curriculum, 2007, John Lybolt, Jennifer Armstrong, Kristen Evans Techmanski, Catherine Gottfred
This curriculum is designed to enhance children's phonemic awareness and vocabulary development through 41 different lesson plans.

CURR-9.906B Strong Start Grades K-2 A Social & Emotional Learning Curriculum, 2007, Kenneth Merrell, Danielle Parisi, Sara Whitcomb
This curriculum promotes the social.emotional competence of children in kindergarten to second grads. A CD-ROM of handouts, transparencies and parent bulletins is included.

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