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Social & Emotional Development
Stress-busting tips for early childhood classrooms
View the tip sheet and discover eight stress-busting tips that can be implemented in early childhood classroom. One example of a tip included is to "be sensitive to possible sensory…
5 Classroomwide Practices to Improve Behavior
Discover five simple practices you can implement in your early childhood classroom to improve child behavior. One example is to establish routines within your existing routines.
How parents of preschoolers can support social-emotional development
Children’s ability to regulate their emotions and skillfully manage social interactions is critical to their healthy development and future success. Use this infographic as a guide to help encourage and…
Perceptual, Motor, and Physical Development
Developmental Progression of Skills: Fine Motor Skills
Excerpted from Early Intervention Every Day!, this chapter presents milestones in the area of fine motor skills and ways for providers to coach caregivers to facilitate the skill’s development in…
How do you address feeding challenges in young children?
Read this author interview and learn more about the prevalence of feeding challenges in young children, as well as some sample interventions to address feeding challenges.
Music and movement
View the sample activity to learn strategies to encourage child participation in music and movement activities. These strategies include identifying and integrating child preferences, having an adult intervene, and arranging…
Approaches to Learning
Activity: Play Time
Here's a helpful chart on which least-intrusive adaptations early childhood teams should make in certain situations so that young students can most benefit from play time.
QuickTips: Promoting Critical Thinking Skills in Young Learners
For this post, I want to share a helpful infographic with some great tips on supporting the development of preschoolers’ thinking skills—the foundation of their future academic success. Created with…
Language & Literacy: Literacy
PAth to Literacy sample lesson
View a sample lesson from PAth to Literacy, a literacy intervention focused on improving phonological awareness skills for preschool and kindergarten children.
8 Fun Things to Do With Babies
Download this tip sheet to help babies have fun and learn language skills simultaneously.
8 Fun Things to Do With Young Toddlers
Download this tip sheet to help young toddlers have fun and learn language skills simultaneously.
8 Fun Things to Do With Older Toddlers
Download this tip sheet to help older toddlers have fun and learn language skills simultaneously.
8 Fun Things to Do With Preschoolers
Download this tip sheet to help preschoolers have fun and learn language skills simultaneously.
Language & Literacy: Language & Communication
Observing Children Learning English (OCLE)
View the checklist and use it to keep track of the progress of young children learning English as a second language. Conveniently broken down into fifteen categories, this checklist will…
Low – Or No – Tech Assistive Technology Options
Assistive technology doesn't have to be high-tech. Here are 5 great examples of easy-to-use, low-tech or no-tech AT tools that help build children’s communication skills. Adapted from Assistive Technology for…
Tips for talking with toddlers
Opportunities to involve young kids in talk are all around you: a book, a favorite toy, a plane flying overhead, or even a routine chore can start great conversations that…
