With more emphasis on young children’s literacy achievement than ever before, assessment is an essential component in preschool literacy programs. This resource provides guidance on how to account for student learning and adapt teaching strategies to fit children’s individual needs. Preschool teachers and administrators will be able to assess children’s oral language development, phonological awareness, comprehension, and concepts about print, books, and writing. Includes professional development guidelines and supplemental resources on working with diverse families. From the International Reading Association’s Preschool Literacy Collection.

Did you miss this issue of NAEYC's award winning journal Young Children? July 2008 features articles on learning standards, as well as other important topics such as sculpture and literacy. While supplies last.

This updated classic shows teachers proven methods for documenting—including collecting, analyzing, and displaying—young children’s work in the classroom. Applicable to different curriculum models, it provides tips on how to develop children’s portfolios to use for assessment and accountability, as well as for sharing with families. Also useful for curriculum coordinators, principals, and other administrators, this edition has new features, including teacher materials, extra examples and photographs, information on teacher portfolios, and more. From Teachers College Press.

The articles in this engaging volume, mostly from Young Children, address the purposes of and uses for assessment. Expert commentary from Marian Marion, Gayle Mindes, Richard Clifford, Diane Trister Dodge and others offers an overview of the topic and specific examples to show how assessment informs and improves practice in early childhood education. Includes a statement of position from NAEYC and NAECS/SDE.

For more information on NAEYC’s Spotlight Series, search for keyword "spotlight" in the catalog search function. Also available in English (#285).

This resource explores the vital connection between observing and effective teaching, offering guidelines and specific strategies to help teachers and caregivers transform observing into an essential component of their teaching practices. Much more than just a set of skills, observation is a mindset of openness and wonder that helps teachers and caregivers get to know more about each child in their care. In this new edition, the authors have added extensive, up-to-date examples to help teachers apply what they learn about children as well as a study guide for use in staff development and college courses. Copublished with Teaching Strategies.

Effective teachers utilize challenging and inviting curriculum while evaluating children’s learning in order to extend their development through the school year. Written for PreK–3 educators, this book helps teachers do just that by blending curriculum planning, implementation, and assessment into one seamless process and providing a practical, performance-based approach to early childhood assessment. From Corwin Press.

This instructional, interactive DVD includes 28 video clips of varying lengths captured in actual early childhood classrooms. The clips are divided into six instructional categories: Prevention in Action, Positive Guidance in Action, Learning Opportunities, Developing Observation Skills, Case Study: Pre-Intervention, and Case Study: Intervention. A 60-page Trainer Guide is included on the disc, with suggestions for using each video clip in training, leading group discussions, and conducting small group activities. From the Devereux Early Childhood Initiative and Video Active Productions.

40 min.

Learn how to use children’s work to communicate what is being learned in early childhood and elementary school classrooms. Extending the work begun in Windows on Learning: Documenting Young Children's Work, this book offers the tools educators need to present powerful evidence—other than test scores—that children are learning. Includes specific strategies for implementing more effective professional communication, and extensive resources on communication techniques. From Teachers College Press.

The resource you need to integrate early learning standards into your curriculum! The author provides practical help, support, and clear explanations. Easy-to-read charts show how different states define standards in each major content area and how these standards can be achieved in classrooms and programs. Learn how to plan curriculum with specific learning standards in mind; address standards in ways that are developmentally appropriate and effective; and assess children's progress toward these standards. Copublished with Redleaf Press.

This fifth edition covers the basics of screening used to identify which children may have learning problems or disabilities. Offers advice for selecting an appropriate screening instrument and for setting up a screening program. Contains reviews of current developmental screens, plus an entirely new annotated bibliography. For the first time, it includes sections on screening for social-emotional/behavioral concerns and screening individual areas of development.

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