Play and Learning
Music 3-5
This book gives information, ideas and principles for music with three to five year olds that are both down-to-earth and up-to-date. Written in a style...
July 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43057-9 (Routledge)
Thinking and Learning About Mathematics in the Early Years
How can early years practitioners help young children to become not only numerate but aspiring mathematicians who love numbers, shapes and mathematical comparisons?
The introduction...
March 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43236-8 (Routledge)
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Healthy, Active and Outside!
Running an Outdoors Programme in the Early Years
'There’s a growing awareness that for the good of their health, children need to be out and about more, with their friends, exploring the outdoor...
January 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43652-6 (David Fulton Publis)
Playing and Learning Outdoors
Making Provision for High Quality Experiences in the Outdoor Environment
There is now a growing appreciation of the importance and value of learning through play outdoors.
In a world where it is perceived that children can...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41211-7 (Routledge)
Supporting Multilingual Learners in the Early Years
Many languages - many children
Are children who are exposed to more than one language from birth at an advantage or a disadvantage when starting school?
Supporting Multilingual Learners in the...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43801-8 (Routledge)
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Essential Nursery Management
A Practitioner's Guide
Written by a highly acclaimed expert in the field, this practical and accessible book addresses all the critical aspects of effective nursery management. From leadership...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43072-2 (Routledge)
Nature and Young Children
Encouraging Creative Play and Learning in Natural Environments
From adding richness and variety to learning, to redesigning a playground, this highly accessible text will provide early years practitioners with a wealth of ideas...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42872-9 (Routledge)
Drama 3 - 5
A Practical Guide to Teaching Drama to Children in the Foundation Stage
As Drama becomes a very popular way of encouraging creative learning in the early years, this highly practical book shows early years practitioners how to...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42169-0 (Routledge)
Understanding Children's Development in the Early Years
Questions Practitioners Frequently Ask
This highly practical and accessible book is full of case studies and helpful advice on how to enhance our understanding of very young children. The...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41288-9 (Routledge)
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Early Years Stories for the Foundation Stage
Ideas and Inspiration for Active Learning
Following on from the success of Mal Leicester's previous books Stories for Classroom and Assembly and Stories for Inclusive Schools, this book shows how to make...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-37603-7 (Routledge)
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Sound Beginnings
Learning and Development in the Early Years
By celebrating the spirit and principles that are enshrined in the Curriculum Guidance for the Foundation Stage (DfES, 2000), this book describes how children learn...
2006 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-422-1 (David Fulton Publis)
Developing Play for the Under 3s
The Treasure Basket and Heuristic Play
The Treasure Basket and Heuristic Play promote extraordinary capacities of concentration, intellectual brilliance and manipulative mastery for babies and young children. The approach appears deceptively...
2006 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-429-0 (David Fulton Publis)
Ready, Steady, Play! 10 pack
Nature, Living and Growing focuses on outdoor play and how nature can contribute to a child’s learning and development. Split into four sections, which focus...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44520-7 (David Fulton Publis)
Books, Stories and Puppets
Part of the Ready, Steady, Play! series, Books, Stories and Puppets promotes visual storytelling and provides ideas for extending learning through a range of stories...
2006 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-148-0 (David Fulton Publis)
Music and Singing
Packed full of exciting activities that display how song and music can enhance a young child's learning, Music and Singing conveys how you can:
- have confidence...
2006 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-276-0 (David Fulton Publis)
Bears
Bears takes a look at these ever popular toys through a range of hands-on activities and creativity. Children will:
- develop self expression and creativity through familiar...
2006 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-294-4 (David Fulton Publis)
Water
This exciting topic-based series offers early years practitioners collections of activities based on familiar themes. The activities can be easily implemented and readily incorporated into...
2006 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-344-6 (David Fulton Publis)
Play using Natural Materials
Play using Natural Materials shows that natural materials can equal ready-made toys as an exciting stimulus for play in order to promote the learning and...
2006 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-099-5 (David Fulton Publis)
Food and Cooking
Exploring how play in this area can develop children's understanding of world cultures and healthy eating. Use Food and Cooking to help children understand how...
2006 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-100-8 (David Fulton Publis)
Festivals
Festivals provides an insight into various events that children may, or may not, have in common. It will enhance your understanding of a range of...
2006 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-101-5 (David Fulton Publis)
Construction
Exploring how construction play activities can promote the learning and development of children within early years settings, Construction will help enable children to develop an...
2006 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-098-8 (David Fulton Publis)
Creating a Space to Grow
The Process of Developing your Outdoor Learning Environment
Packed full of strategies and activities for enhancing outdoor play, this practical guide will enable practitioners to recognize the true value that outdoor spaces can...
2006 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-304-0 (David Fulton Publis)
The Sea
This exciting topic-based series offers early years practitioners collections of activities based on familiar themes. The activities can be easily implemented and readily incorporated into...
2006 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-289-0 (David Fulton Publis)
Ourselves
This exciting topic-based series offers early years practitioners collections of activities based on familiar themes. The activities can be easily implemented and readily incorporated into...
2006 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-290-6 (David Fulton Publis)
Displays and Interest Tables
Conveying how collections and displays can become the focus for much discussion and debate in circle time, and how they can be linked to other...
2005 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-267-8 (David Fulton Publis)
Flight
This exciting topic-based series offers early years practitioners collections of activities based on familiar themes. The activities can be easily implemented and readily incorporated into...
2005 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-288-3 (David Fulton Publis)
Learning Outdoors
Improving the Quality of Young Children's Play Outdoors
It is now officially acknowledged that outdoor play is extremely important for young children's development and that a few old bikes and a climbing frame...
2005 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-350-7 (David Fulton Publis)
Woodland Creatures
This exciting topic-based series offers early years practitioners collections of activities based on familiar themes. The activities can be easily implemented and readily incorporated into...
2005 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-291-3 (David Fulton Publis)
Creativity
Creativity explains the ideal use of a variety of creative mediums and utensils, demonstrating how they can best be offered to supportthe learning and development...
2005 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-076-6 (David Fulton Publis)
Role Play
Guaranteed fun for children and practitioners alike, the Ready Steady Play series provides lively and stimulating activities for children.
Each book focuses on one specific aspect of...
2005 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-147-3 (David Fulton Publis)
Helping with Behaviour
Establishing the Positive and Addressing the Difficult in the Early Years
This book shows how to establish good practice in early years settings so that all children are supported in developing positive interactions with one another.
With...
2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-34291-9 (Routledge)
Nature, Living and Growing
Nature, Living and Growing focuses on outdoor play and how nature can contribute to a child’s learning and development. Split into four sections, which focus...
2005 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-114-5 (David Fulton Publis)
Playing Outside
Activities, Ideas and Inspiration for the Early Years
To help promote physical activity and healthy children this book provides:
- clear and detailed guidance on all aspects of outdoor play
- practical activities that cover all...
2005 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-067-4 (David Fulton Publis)
Circle Time for Young Children
This highly practical book will explain how to put the principles for early years education into practice through well-structured and purposeful circle time lesson plans....
2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-34289-6 (Routledge)
Planning for Children's Play and Learning
Meeting children’s needs in the later stages of EYFS
Practitioners need help keeping up to speed with the latest developments in the Foundation Stage. Updated in line with current policy and practice, this new...
2005 | Paperback: 978-1-84312-151-0 (David Fulton Publis)
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Identifying Additional Learning Needs in the Early Years
Listening to the Children
I know there is something wrong, but what? How do I know if outside help for this child is needed? How do I tell parents...
2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-36215-3 (Routledge)
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Observing, Assessing and Planning for Children in the Early Years
This introductory text shows how, by observing children knowledgeably, practitioners can plan for and assess the young children in their care much more effectively. Observation...
2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-33974-2 (Routledge)
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Outdoor Play in the Early Years
Management and Innovation
This book offers a thorough investigation of the outdoor area and outdoor play in any early years setting. It stimulates and challenges practitioners to develop...
2002 | Paperback: 978-1-85346-952-7 (David Fulton Publis)