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Textbooks, references and open learning resources.
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Methods of Teaching Early Literacy
Nandita Gurjar, Sohyun Meacham, and Constance Beecher · Iowa State University
Theories, teaching strategies, and instructional materials pertinent to teaching reading and writing in grades PK-3, with an emphasis on integrating reading, writing, speaking, and listening, as well as integration across content areas while addressing diversity and inclusion.
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Infant and Toddler Education and Care
Susan Eliason · Bridgewater State University
In the contents: 1.01: Welcome to Infant and Toddler Education and Care
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Health, Safety, and Nutrition (WI version, Paris)
Jennifer Paris · College of the Canyons
In the contents: 1.01: Childrens Well-Being and Early Childhood Education
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Leadership in Early Care and Education
Tammy Marino, Maidie Rosengarden, Sally Gunyon, & Taya Noland · Southwestern Oregon Community College & Portland State University
In the contents: 01: Leadership- An Introduction to Leadership Skills in Early Childhood Care and Education · 06: Current Issues in the Field of Early Childhood Education
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Arts Integration in Elementary Curriculum 2e
Molly Zhou and David Brown · Dalton State College
Many teachers, schools, and arts programs benefit from knowing the different ways the arts can be present in schools. Without making a distinction, opportunities can be missed, programs can lack clarity, or the arts can seem like something too unwieldy to incorporate. Making a distinction among the approaches can help narrow or focus objectives as well as help educators select the most appropriate approach based on their objectives.
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ECE Field Experience 3 (NWTC)
Mary Beth Boettcher · Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
In the contents: 4.07: Measuring High-Quality in Early Care and Education Classrooms
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Mentored Program Observation
Susan Eliason & Gwen Alexander · Bridgewater State University
This book is designed so students experience and reflect upon the full range of childcare delivery models, birth through kindergarten.
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The Whole Child: Development in the Early Years (Budzyna and Buckley)
Deirdre Budzyna and Doris Buckley · Northern Essex Community College
In the contents: 01: Perspectives on Early Childhood · 1.01: Childhood Defined · 08: Early Childhood Development
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Music and the Child
Natalie Sarrazin · College at Brockport, SUNY
This book explores a holistic, artistic, and integrated approach to understanding the developmental connections between music and children. This book guides professionals to work through music, harnessing the processes that underlie music learning, and outlining developmentally appropriate methods to understand the role of music in children’s lives through play, games, creativity, and movement.
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Administration and Management of Early Childhood Programs I
Julia Faumuina · Cerro Coso Community College
In the contents: 01: Chapter 1- Introduction to Early Childhood Programs · 1.01: Trends and Needs for Early Care · 1.02: Types of Early Care
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The ELC - An Early Childhood Learning Community at Work (Bridge, Melita, and Roiger)
Heather Bridge, Lorraine Melita, and Patricia Roiger · State University of New York Corland
The Early Learning Community (ELC) used an Action Research model, that assists educators in using a wide variety of investigative, analytical and evaluative, research methods designed to diagnose problems or weaknesses in their classrooms — whether organizational, academic, or instructional—and help educators develop practical solutions to address them quickly and efficiently.
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Child Growth and Development
Paris, Ricardo, Rymond and Johnson · College of the Canyons
This text is a presentation of how and why children grow, develop, and learn. We will look at how we change physically over time from conception through adolescence. We examine cognitive change, or how our ability to think and remember changes over the first 20 years or so of life. And we will look at how our emotions, psychological state, and social relationships change throughout childhood and adolescence.
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Inclusion, Education and Translanguaging
Julie A. Panagiotopoulou, Lisa Rosen, and Jenna Strzykala Eds. · LibreTexts
The idea for this text came about when we visited Ofelia García in New York in the fall of 2017 to observe and experience translanguaging live—in a mathematics lesson at a bilingual primary school in Queens—during a research visit. This was a special event for us because we had by then been dealing with the concept for years and were constantly confronted with the standard question of how translanguaging can be put into practice in the context of teacher education, congresses and conferences.
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ECE: Field Experience 1
Autumn Gill · Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
In the contents: 04: Applying the Teaching Cycle in Early Childhood Programs · 08: Ethics and Professional Responsibilities in Early Childhood Education
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Mathematics Methods for Early Childhood
Janet Stramel · Fort Hays State University
In the contents: 1.01: The Importance of Early Childhood Mathematics · 1.06: Early Number Concepts and Number Sense · 1.09: Early Fraction Concepts
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Introduction to Children with Exceptionalities
Dana Rethwisch · Palo Verde Community College
In the contents: 01: Overall Concepts of Special Education · 1.1.02: Why We Should Study Exceptionalities in Education · 1.1.05: Historical Perspectives of Special Education
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Understanding Human Development: Prenatal Through Adolescence
Terese Jones; Christina Belli; Esmeralda Julyan · Open Oregon Educational Resources · 2025
Understanding Human Development is an introductory textbook for individuals entering early childhood education and related fields. The textbook provides an overview of the developmental lifespan from conception to adolescence using social justice and ecological perspectives. The textbook aims to represent equitable approaches to understanding human development and discusses the diverse factors and interactions that support or hinder development.
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Reflective Practice in Early Years Education
Sheryl Third · Fanshawe College Pressboks · 2022
This resource will provide a context that will allow the reader to consider their obligation to reflect from their own perspective and will explore how to create a practice that best suits their professional setting. This book will bring together in one place the history, the values, the skills and disposition required to be a reflective practitioner. It is a textbook with elements of a workbook, embedded are opportunities to watch, to think, to write, and to listen allowing the reader to become a purposeful and intentional reflective practitioner.
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The ELC: An Early Childhood Learning Community at Work
Heather Bridge; Lorraine Melita; Patricia Roiger · Open SUNY · 2020
The ELC professional development model was designed to improve the quality of teacher candidates’ Practicum field placements and align teaching in field placements with Learning Standards used in the teacher education program. Teams of four educators from varied settings worked in a Practicum placement setting for one semester to improve their teaching and align it with Learning Standards. An action research approach improved teaching challenges teams faced. Research articles were read to improve teams’ teaching challenges by implementing one agreed strategy. Teams video-recorded, assessed, and reflected on the impact of the strategy on their teaching, on teacher candidates’ learning and on children’s learning. This text compiles six case studies from this model to illustrate how teaching challenges were improved. Appropriate for practiced educators as well as educators in training, this text provides a real world look into applying Learning Standards in early childhood classrooms.
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Play-based teaching approaches: Assessing learning through play
Naomi David; Kat Cain; Andrea Nolan; Natalie Robertson · Deakin University · 2025
This interactive textbook offers a grounding in play-based learning and shares authentic assessment potentials in play. The text encourages the implementation of play-based approaches in early childhood settings and primary school. This media-rich learning resource is designed to guide educators in their play-based teaching journey by linking theory to practice.