This article shares a collaborative approach that two counties in Pennsylvania have taken to tear down the silos and instead promptly and effectively support early learning programs and staff and the children and families they serve.
We are so pleased to be able to offer you the 2021 compilation of Voices of Practitioners articles. This volume marks VOP’s 17th year as an online journal.
The following list of high-quality children’s books covers a variety of genres and themes to support early reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills.
Reading aloud helps develop essential competencies that infants and toddlers will need to become skilled readers later on, including vocabulary knowledge and world knowledge.
In this column, we put renewed interest in outdoor learning into context by reviewing the past 200 years of ideas and practices in nature-based education for young children.
Enhanced by math activities, higher-order mental skills and abilities serve as the behind-the-scenes machinery that facilitates young children’s ability to engage in and demonstrate their learning competency.
Authored by
Authored by:
Holland W. Banse, Douglas H. Clements, Julie Sarama, Crystal Day-Hess, Marisa Simoni, Candace Joswick
A group of coaches, teacher educators, and program directors in Massachusetts spends a school year investigating the ways a cross-context inquiry group can support early childhood leaders in their work with early childhood educators.
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Authored by:
Megina Baker, Stephanie Cox Suárez, Brenda Acero, Peggy Martalock, Denise Nelson, Jenny Hanseul Park, Annalisa Hawkinson Ritchie, Natacha Shillingford
Because we share a moral imperative for all children to have equitable access to developmentally appropriate, high-quality early childhood education, we must ensure that early childhood education degree programs have a floor of quality.
Because we share a moral imperative for all children to have equitable access to developmentally appropriate, high-quality early childhood education, we must ensure that early childhood education degree programs have a floor of quality.
This issue resonates with what research has long demonstrated: instructional practices that address issues of culture and language hold the greatest promise for helping culturally and linguistically diverse learners become successful readers.
This issue resonates with what research has long demonstrated: instructional practices that address issues of culture and language hold the greatest promise for helping culturally and linguistically diverse learners become successful readers.
In this article, we will explore what is known about using mentor texts in the early childhood classroom and provide suggestions for how to effectively choose and use them in kindergarten instruction.
By creating a classroom that stimulates wonder and encourages curiosity, teachers can tap into young children's interest in understanding their physical and social worlds.
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Authored by:
Kathryn Lake MacKay, Kim Collett Plank, Cindy Sanders, Cassy Lewis
It is important that educators and researchers pay attention to immigrant children’s experiences and honor and actively incorporate their transnational expertise into early learning settings.
This article outlines the "Literacy-to-Go program and the ways in which communities can partner with families, teachers, and other professionals to support the literacy development of young learners.
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Authored by:
Maryia LaBree, V. Susan Bennett-Armistead, Cynthia Crosser
Non-story design elements of picture books are sometimes referred to as peritextual features, and they contain valuable information outside of the actual text or story.
This article asks the question, "How can early childhood teachers create listening centers that are community responsive and that foster early literacy development?"
