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Article
Young Children
June 3, 2024

Member Spotlight: Theresa Fredericks

Meet Theresa Fredericks, Owner, Director, and Teacher at Tree Top Child Development Center and Preschool in Ashland, WI.
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Article
Young Children
June 3, 2024

Building Executive Function Skills Through Games: The Power of Playful Learning

NAEYC promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on behalf of young children.

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Cynthia A. Wiltshire, Molly Scott
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Issue
Young Children
Vol. 79, No. 2
June 3, 2024

Summer 2024

Self-Regulation and Executive Function: Responsive and Informed Practices for Early Childhood
This issue of Young Children offers a range of ideas for how early childhood professionals can translate important findings into actionable steps in their own settings to nurture executive function skills.
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Article
Teaching Young Children
April 1, 2024

Beyond Itsy Bitsy: Spiders in the Early Childhood Classroom

Suggestions for spider-related activities that early childhood educators can integrate into a cross-curricular project or unit of study.

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Authored by: 
William Straits
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Article
Young Children
March 1, 2024

Member Spotlight: Brent Spears

Meet Brent Spears of Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation Child Development Center in Mashantucket, Connecticut.
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Article
Young Children
March 1, 2024

Integrating the Arts into Preschool Literacy Practices

Teachers can use the Stories Make Readers model to create arts activities that increase children’s literacy engagement.

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Authored by: 
Juli-Anna Aerila, Merja Kauppinen, Johanna Lähteelä, Mari Siipola
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Article
Young Children
March 1, 2024

Toward An Equity-Centered Approach to Early Childhood Social Studies

In this article, we follow Ms. Mena’s kindergartners’ lead to imagine an approach to early childhood social studies that makes space and time for inquiry into compelling social studies questions.

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Authored by: 
Anna Falkner, Noreen Naseem Rodríguez
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Young Children
March 1, 2024

The Reading Chair

New children’s books too good to miss!

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Authored by: 
Isabel Baker, Miriam Baker Schiffer
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