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Quick Reference Guides for Early Childhood Best Practices

Essential guidance on developmentally appropriate practice for all early childhood educators

Perfect for professional learning, these 16 Quick Reference Guides by Kathy L. Reschke, Ph.D., will put practical knowledge and ready-to-use strategies in the hands of every educator in your early childhood program. Developed by an early childhood expert with more than 40 years of experience in the field, these laminated, six-page primers cover specific topics with explicit links to core developmental domains: cognitive, physical, socio-emotional, communication, and adaptive. Teachers of children from birth to five will get tips they can trust on developmentally appropriate practices—not only within developmental domains, but in other key areas with a broad effect on a child’s life (such as mealtime, friendships, and creativity).

Why These Guides?

  • Colorful illustrations, lists, and infographics instantly engage early childhood educators and give them an at-a-glance understanding of developmentally appropriate practices
  • Ready to use across settings: in homes, classrooms, or professional learning communities
  • Laminated, 3-hole-punch guides are durable and easy to slip into a binder for ready access to key information

What to Order

Ideal for staff professional learning in preschools and across districts, these guides are available in convenient packs of 5 for bulk purchases. (Each pack contains 5 of the same guide.) Individual guides are also available.

School Readiness
Exploring the Cognitive and Socio-emotional Domains

Early Language: First Sounds and Words
Exploring the Communication Domain

Becoming a Writer
Exploring the Communication Domain

Understanding Numbers
Exploring the Cognitive Domain

Curiosity and Scientific Thinking
Exploring the Cognitive Domain

Growing As Thinkers
Exploring the Cognitive Domain

Memory
Exploring the Cognitive Domain

Pretend Play
Exploring the Socio-emotional and Cognitive Domains

Temperament and Behavior
Exploring the Socio-emotional Domain

Early Friendships
Exploring the Socio-emotional Domain

Belonging
Exploring the Socio-emotional Domain

Doing the Right Thing
Exploring the Socio-emotional and Cognitive Domains

Creativity
Exploring the Socio-emotional and Cognitive Domains

Humor
Exploring the Cognitive and Socio-emotional Domains

Mealtime and Eating
Exploring the Physical Domain

Made to Move
Exploring the Physical Domain

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