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2. Teaching STEM in the Preschool Classroom: Exploring Big Ideas ...

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   This book is designed to build educators' confidence and competence so they can bring STEM to life with young children. The authors encourage pre-K teachers to discover the value of engaging preschoolers in scientific inquiry, technological explorations, engineering challenges, and math experiences based on learning trajectories.

3. Talk, Read and Sing Together Every Day! - U.S. Department of ...

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   Encourage back-and-forth exchanges. • Tune into children’s interests and experiences and talk about them. • Take turns communicating. • Show that you are interested in what they are doing and listening to what they say. • Provide time for children to respond. 3. Invite children to talk about what they are doing.

4. My vision for family engagement is ambitious…

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   Teacher,” both teachers and principals across the coun-try consistently identify family engagement to be one of the most challenging aspects of their work.13 A com-mon refrain from educators is that they have a strong desire to work with families from diverse backgrounds and cultures and to develop stronger home-school

5. Planning for an Interactive Readaloud with Children in Pre-K ...

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   This planning guide contains instructions for how you can conduct readalouds while students are at home. The content of this guide is geared towards students who are pre-kindergarten or in kindergarten or grade 1. The readaloud process in this guide looks the same at different grade levels, but caregivers and teachers should select books with ...

6. WWC | Preparing Young Children for School

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   The guidance will help to prepare young children to benefit from the learning opportunities they will encounter in school. Regularly provide intentional, engaging instruction and practice focused on social-emotional skills. Strengthen children's executive function skills using specific games and activities. Provide intentional instruction to ...

7. Talking about Artifacts: Preschool Children’s Explorations ...

   files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ910912.pdf

   Engineering thinking is a new area of exploration within engineering education that is based on the developmental engineering hypothesis suggesting that young children’s exploratory, inquisitive, and creative behaviors resemble traits highly desirable in engineering (Evangelou, in press). In this paper, we present initial findings from a ...

8. WWC | Foundational Skills to Support Reading for ...

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   This practice guide provides four recommendations for teaching foundational reading skills to students in kindergarten through 3rd grade. Each recommendation includes implementation steps and solutions for common obstacles. The recommendations also summarize and rate supporting evidence. This guide is geared towards teachers, administrators ...

9. Preschool Curriculum: What'sInIt forChildren andTeachers - ed

   files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED505161.pdf

   in the dramatic play area). The alphabet displayed and visible at children’s eye view, with children having access to alphabet toys and manip-ulatives (e.g., alphabet puzzles, magnetic letters). Functional signs that are visible around the classroom. (e.g., the class schedule, labels for toy storage, names on cubbies).