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Young Children
March 1, 2016

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Blog
February 29, 2016

Máquinas de hacer garabatos

Paige Zittrauer challenged her kindergarten students and their high school art student project partners: Make a contraption that moves on its own across a piece of paper and leaves a mark in its path

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Authored by: 
Cate Heroman, Paige Zittrauer
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A classroom building scribbling machines
Blog
February 29, 2016

Scribbling Machines

Paige Zittrauer challenged her kindergarten students and their high school art student project partners: Make a contraption that moves on its own across a piece of paper and leaves a mark in its path

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Authored by: 
Cate Heroman, Paige Zittrauer
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Blog
February 16, 2016

Using Technology to Make Reading an Enjoyable Experience for All Children

Early learning is critical for developing cognitive language skills and for interpersonal and socio-emotional development. That knowledge and our country’s need led me to start LUDO project, a multimedia project that publishes children’s stories

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Authored by: 
​Alberto Barrantes
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Article
Teaching Young Children
February 1, 2016

Message in a Backpack™ Focus and Self-Control

Self-control and focus are both important skills for children to practice in order to succeed in school. Here are some that you and your child can do together at home.
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Article
Teaching Young Children
February 1, 2016

Good Guidance: The 7 Essential Life Skills

In this issue, Galinsky delves into the first life skill, focus and self control, and offers teachers practical suggestions for promoting this skill in their work with preschoolers.

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Authored by: 
Ellen Galinsky
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Blog
December 14, 2015

Global Lessons for Early Childhood Teacher Education

As NAEYC is “Going Global,” many of the lessons I have learned in Roatan align with the global initiatives. For example, with the help of NAEYC resources I am providing professional development and I conduct observations of children and teachers

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Authored by: 
Heather Logan
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Article
Young Children
November 1, 2015

What Parents Have to Teach Us About Their Dual Language Children

Families’ insights into code switching, the sequence of second language acquisition, and language transference and development help teachers create a welcoming and supportive setting for children.

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Authored by: 
Sara Michael-Luna
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Article
Young Children
November 1, 2015

The Reading Chair: November 2015

New children's books too good to miss.

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Authored by: 
Isabel Baker, Miriam Baker Schiffer
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YC November 2015 Issue
Issue
Young Children
Vol. 70, No. 5
November 1, 2015

November 2015

The Team Behind the Teacher
YC November 2015 Issue
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Voices of Practitioners, Winter 2015, Volume 10

Read the Winter 2015 issue of Voices of Practitioners. Articles include "The Effect of Peer Support on Transitions of a Child with Autism" and "Teacher Research as a Form of Inspiration, Influence, and Mentoring."
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Article
Young Children
September 1, 2015

The Reading Chair: September 2015

New children's books too good to miss .

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Isabel Baker, Miriam Baker Schiffer
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Article
Young Children
September 1, 2015

Our Proud Heritage—Playground: A Historical Context

The first schools for the very young in the United States did not include playgrounds because they were established prior to the concept of a playground.

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Authored by: 
​Timothy A. Kinard
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Article
Young Children
September 1, 2015

It’s Elementary! Supporting Literacy in the Primary Grades

We present a cluster of articles featuring evidencebased practices that foster the literacy development of children in kindergarten through third grade.

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Authored by: 
M. Deanna Ramey
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