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Young Children (YC) is NAEYC's award-winning, peer-reviewed journal that combines research and practice. YC supports educational excellence and focuses on meeting the needs of all children, birth through third grade.

 

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Young Children
March 1, 2024

Member Spotlight: Brent Spears

Meet Brent Spears of Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation Child Development Center in Mashantucket, Connecticut.
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Young Children
March 1, 2024

Integrating the Arts into Preschool Literacy Practices

Teachers can use the Stories Make Readers model to create arts activities that increase children’s literacy engagement.

Authored by

Authored by: 
Juli-Anna Aerila, Merja Kauppinen, Johanna Lähteelä, Mari Siipola
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new books too good to miss!
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Young Children
March 1, 2024

The Reading Chair

New children’s books too good to miss!

Authored by

Authored by: 
Isabel Baker, Miriam Baker Schiffer
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An Innocent Question Packed with Opportunity

Author Maria Beteta describes how an innocent question became an opportunity to explore powerful concepts such as identity, culture, self-perception, differences, and similarities that connect us all.

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Authored by: 
Maria Jose Beteta
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Embracing Disability Identity: Representation in Literature as a Tool Towards Inclusivity

In this article, we share how reading experiences served as jumping off points for exploring how disability representation in children’s literature can be incorporated as an essential component of teacher preparation and children’s literacy learning. 

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Authored by: 
Maria Mavrides Calderon, Isabel Mavrides-Calderon
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Learning to Train Surf

In this essay, I share how my perceptions of my students’ capabilities—and my own—were deeply influenced by my identity as a White, gay, cis male from a rural college town.

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Authored by: 
David P. Barry
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Introduction: Using Identity Narratives to Inform ECE Practice

The authors in this collection examine their own identities by looking at their histories; reflecting on how their identities that arise from group memberships influence their teaching.

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Authored by: 
Barbara Henderson, Isauro M. Escamilla, Megina Baker, Amanda Branscombe, Maleka Donaldson, Debra Murphy, Andrew J. Stremmel
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Young Children
December 1, 2023

The Reading Chair

New children's books that are too good to miss!

Authored by

Authored by: 
Isabel Baker, Miriam Baker Schiffer
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