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Teaching Young Children
July 1, 2024

Promoting Language Growth Through Guided Drawing Interactions

Guided drawing provides rich opportunities for supporting and extending multilingual learners’ language, vocabulary, and concept knowledge.

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Christina M. Cassano, Kathleen A. Paciga
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Teaching Young Children
Vol. 17, No. 4
July 1, 2024

Summer 2024

Nurturing Multilingual Learners in Preschool
Teaching Young Children is NAEYC's magazine for anyone who works with preschoolers. Colorful, informative, and easy-to-read, TYC is packed full of teaching ideas, strategies, and tips.
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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

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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The cover of the Winter 2024 edition of TYC.
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Teaching Young Children
Vol. 17, No. 2
January 2, 2024

Winter 2024

Literacy Practices for Preschool
Teaching Young Children is NAEYC's magazine for anyone who works with preschoolers. Colorful, informative, and easy-to-read, TYC is packed full of teaching ideas, strategies, and tips.
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Teaching Young Children
January 2, 2024

Leveraging the Environment to Ignite Children’s Literacy Learning

Focusing on the ecology of the classroom allows educators to intentionally create opportunities throughout the learning day to foster children’s early literacy and language skills.

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Authored by: 
Leslie La Croix, Kimberly Sanders Austin, Christine Pegorraro Schull, Sara E. Miller, Julie K. Kidd
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