Books related to your course can be found on Level 1 (link to map) in:
Browse the shelves at these call numbers:
| Arts | 372.5044 |
| Behaviour, Resilience and Wellbeing | 372.21 |
| Child Development | 305.231 |
| Child Protection | 362.7 |
| Child Psychology | 155.4 |
| Children & Families | 303.32 |
| Curriculum | 372.19 |
| EYLF & NQS | 372.21 |
| Inclusion & Diversity | 370.117 & 371.9 |
| Leadership & Management | 372.12 - 372.19 |
| Literacy | 372.6 |
| Music, Movement & Dance | 372.87 |
| Observation & Assessment | 372.21 |
| Play | 372.21 |
| Programming & Planning | 372.11 |
| Science | 372.35 |
| Theorists - Skinner, Piaget, Montessori, Vygotsky | 150.19, 155.4, 370.1523 |
Can I Go and Play Now?
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Is it time to re-think continuous practice in the early years?The world of education is an amazing and rewarding world to be in, but there is a sense among many that work within it that there is something not quite right, that all is not well. In this book, Greg Bottrill explores how he ensures that, in his Early Years setting, continuous provision enables children. He shares his Early Years pedagogy through the ′3Ms′ and explains how to apply these in the classroom. Greg also explores the definition of play - what it is and what it isn't - and the challenging role of the Early Years teacher.
Developing secure attachment through play : helping vulnerable children to build their emotional and social wellbeing
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"Developing Secure Attachment Through Play offers a range of imaginative and engaging play-based activities, designed to help vulnerable young children forge safe attachments with their caregivers.
Fun Experiences and Physical Activities to Help Heal Children Who Hurt
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Develop children's brains and bonds with this collection of no-tech, physical games, strategies and activities. Ideal for children who have experienced neglect, abuse and trauma, these "real-world" experiences draw on therapeutic, trauma-focused-care play principles and promote positive attachment between child and caregivers. Explanations for how and why specific play themes and caregiver attitudes can help children's brain development enhance the text. The book also shows how children learn to problem-solve real life situations by playing them out, finding workable solutions to their own problems, and increasing their resiliency. Further benefits include better cause-effect thinking, impulse control, and increased cognitive and emotional functioning by practicing physical movements that exercise specific areas of the brain.
Learning through play
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Learning through Play introduces students to the theory of play in the early years while seamlessly integrating curriculum, current trends and Australian government policy. It aims to create a shared understanding of play and play-based pedagogies that positively influence the everydaypractices of educators and improve the learning experiences of children. The book extensively covers the various contexts that children, from birth to age 8, may engage with during the early years.
More Creative Coping Skills for Children
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This collection of fun and adaptable activities, games, stories and handouts is a complete resource for supporting children coping with stress and difficult emotions. From engaging arts and crafts, to interactive stories and relaxing meditations, all the interventions and activities are thematically structured so that each chapter contains the means for building specific skills or overcoming behavioral issues. Each chapter contains suggested goals, positive affirmations and photocopiable handouts to enable a child to continue practising and learning new life skills outside of sessions with parents or professionals. The activities in this book are ideal for use with children aged 3-12 to help them rebalance and gain a strong grasp on their emotions.
The PlayHOORAY! Handbook
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With 100 activities using items from around the house, you'll find everything you need to entertain babies, toddlers and younger school-age children.
Play in Early Childhood Education
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The topic of play is fundamental to understanding how children grow and learn. Play in Early Childhood Education Second Edition is an essential introduction to the theories behind this play and how it relates to children's development and learning. It enables students and educators to understand the complex learning theories, professional practice and selected government policies that focus on children's play and early learning.
Play in the Early Years
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The second edition of Play in the Early Years provides a comprehensive introduction to pedagogy and play in early years education settings. Drawing on classical and contemporary theories, this text examines social, cultural and institutional approaches to play, and explores a range of strategies for successfully integrating play into classrooms.
Real Kids, Real Play
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Remember the good old days?The days when a kid's social network was formed playing kick-to-kick in the street?Where parties consisted of a sack, an egg, a spoon and a donkey's tail?Where we sat by the radio for hours with our finger hovering on the record button to catch THAT song?When you could do silly things and there was no record of it anywhere for the world to see!
Sustainable Play
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Filled with 60+ creative, accessible and plastic-free projects and play ideas, Sustainable Play is packed with crafts and games to enjoy with your children on slow, rainy or drawbridge days at home.
50 fantastic things to do with cardboard
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In order to be able to think creatively, children have to be encouraged to use their imaginations and play autonomously. When setting up open-ended learning opportunities that stimulate children to investigate possibilities practitioners need easily accessible, cost effective resources. The rationale behind using cardboard boxes is the simple fact that they are cheap and open-ended, meaning they can be easily sourced and simply transformed by both adults and children. A cardboard box is a resource that when left alone, does nothing in particular but comes to life in the hands of children, requiring them to use their imagination or to build on their past experiences. Boxes as open-ended materials greatly enhance the play experience, as they require children to bring their thoughts into the play experience in a deeper way.
50 fantastic things to do with paint
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This book is designed to help young children to grow and develop through a range of both planned and informal activities. It focuses on practical activities and purposeful play for individuals, pairs and small groups.
Art Lab for Kids
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Art Lab for Kids is a refreshing source of wonderful ideas for creating fine art with children. This step-by-step book offers 52 fun and creative art projects set into weekly lessons, beginning with drawing, moving through painting and printmaking, and then building to paper collage and mixed media.
Art Workshops for Children
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A guide to twelve children's art workshops by one of the world's most innovative facilitators and best-selling bookmakers. Art Workshops for Childrenis a guide for parents and teachers to organize and execute artistic workshops for children. 12 workshops are featured, each offering a list of materials needed, a step-by-step guide to facilitation, practical tips, illustrated examples, and photos of workshops in progress. The workshops are designed to spark children's imaginations, champion group bonding, and give visually pleasing results - with no artistic ability required. Tried and tested around the world by children of all ages. Perfect for organizing group events at home, in schools, at parties, at museums - anywhere!
Craft Lab for Kids
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With Craft Lab for Kids , help your kids tap into the fun and empowerment of creating their own custom designs to wear, decorate with, and give. Spruce Up Your Stuff. Learn fun ways to personalize with a variety of embellishment techniques Express Yourself! Add your personality to all kinds of homemade projects Take Care of YOU. Self-care DIY projects to benefit their well-being Kids Just Wanna Have Fun. Just-for-fun projects to make everyone smile Classic Crafts with a Twist.
It's Arts Play
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It's Arts Play: Belonging, Being and Becoming through the Arts introduces undergraduate students to Arts education for Early Childhood (birth to 8 years) via the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF), which offers a holistic concept of children's learning, framed around the themes ofBelonging, Being and Becoming. The text covers all five subjects identified as part of The Arts in the Australian Curriculum (dance, drama, media arts, music and visual arts).While the integral importance of the arts in early childhood is generally accepted, the nature of authentic arts education practice in this sphere is not well understood. This text offers well-focused, comprehensive and sound practical guidance for students. It promotes a play-based approach, andemphasises learning through the Arts and engagement in the Arts as congruent with the developmental model of children's learning, as characterised by the EYLF. A distinctive feature of this text is the incorporation of authentic Indigenous Perspectives embedded throughout.
The Kids' Multicultural Art Book
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For ages 4-8. An exciting hands-on feast of multicultural art and craft experiences. With this book, children learn by doing -- reaching across continents with paper, paste, and paints, while developing basic sensibilities about the wondrous cultures of others.
Learning and Behavior
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This book reviews how people and animals learn and how their behaviors are changed as a result of learning. It describes the most important principles, theories, controversies, and experiments that pertain to learning and behavior that are applicable to diverse species and different learning situations.
Supporting and Encouraging Positive Behaviour in Schools and Pre-Schools
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Sharing insights of various theoretical perspectives to help understand the complex root causes of children's behaviour, Supporting Positive Behaviour in Early Childhood Settings and Primary Schools highlights key responses that can encourage positive mental health, resilience and behaviour.
Tricky behaviours : managing challenging and confronting behaviours while staying sane!
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In Tricky Behaviours leading Australian adolescent psychologist Andrew Fuller delves deeply into the different types of tricky behaviour displayed by children of all ages. Using the latest thinking and developments in child psychology, he explains the most common reasons why children display confronting behaviour and outlines practical steps you can take to help show them the way to live harmoniously with you and others.
Young Children's Behaviour
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An evidence-based text for pre-service teachers explaining how to develop children's capacity for self-regulation in childcare settings and early years of school.
Child and Adolescent Development for Educators
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Child and Adolescent Development for Educators covers development from early childhood through high school. This text provides authentic, research-based strategies and guidelines for the classroom, helping you to create an environment that promotes optimal development in children. The authors apply child development concepts to topics of high interest and relevance to teachers, including classroom behaviour management, constructivism, social-emotional development, and many others.
Child Development & Education
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Helps students translate developmental theories into practical implications for teaching and caring for children from diverse backgrounds, and with diverse characteristics and needs. Broad coverage and perspectives: draws from numerous theoretical perspectives, research studies conducted around the world, and the authors' own experiences as parents, teachers, psychologists and researchers to identify strategies for promoting young people's physical, cognitive and social-emotional growth.
Child development: a cultural approach
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Exploring Child and Adolescent Development
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For courses in Child Development that take a chronological approach Laura Berk's most concise child development text! Exploring Child and Adolescent Development provides students with a clear, efficient survey of the most important concepts and research findings in the field of child development. In just 12 chapters, Berk makes classic, contemporary, and cutting-edge theories and research accessible in a manageable and relevant way, with an especially strong emphasis on real-world applications and an exceptional multicultural and cross-cultural focus.
Parenting Is Forever
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Parenting is Forever reflects the ongoing conversations of a paediatrician with those who care for children. It is influenced by her experience as a parent and from helping more than 30,000 families over twenty-five years. Dr Elizabeth Green shares her practical tips for navigating the developmental stages of childhood. From before birth, through early childhood and adolescence, to adulthood. Parenting is not a competition. It’s okay to fail and try again. That’s what makes us better parents.
Child Protection in the Early Years
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This accessible guide shows early years professionals how to create safe, supportive environments for young children who have encountered adverse childhood experiences. Explaining the impact of trauma on young brains, it gives practical instructions on how to recognise and respond to abuse. These instructions are supported by exercises, case studies, and reflection points that help you identify and improve your methods. Current legislation, policy and procedure are clarified in clear, concise language, providing you with everything you'll need to work with your team towards a happier, safer future for the children in your care.
Children and the Law in Australia
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The second edition of this highly-regarded work provides extensive coverage of the ways in which the law and children interact. Topics such as criminal law, the internet, immigration law, family law, medical law, discrimination law, education and the legal process are included with contributions from expert authors in each area.
Parents' and carers' guide to child protection education
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Our Parents’ and Carers’ Guide to Child Protection Education provides an informative, easy-to-follow, holistic approach to teaching abuse prevention education to children. It is suitable for parents and foster carers and includes activities to help children understand these essential concepts.
Professional Communication for Early Childhood Educators
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Effective interpersonal and workplace communication in everyday practice This book puts professional communication at the forefront of practice for all early childhood educators. Quality early childhood education requires educators to develop strong relationships with children, families, colleagues, and professional and community stakeholders.
10 Steps to reducing your childs anxiety
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Recognising, expressing and understanding emotions helps young children make sense of their life experiences.
Every Child Can Fly
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Throughout Every Child Can Fly , Kozlowski explores the defining features of high-quality inclusion and shows readers how to provide access and support for children with disabilities.
Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew, 3rd Edition
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One of the autism community's most beloved classics, Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew has informed, delighted, and guided millions of families and professionals the world over since its first edition was published in 2005. A child's voice leads into each chapter, offering a one-of-a-kind exploration into how ten core characteristics of autism affect our children's perceptions and reactions to the surrounding physical, sensory and social environments.
The Anti-Bias Approach in Early Childhood
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The Anti-Bias Approach in Early Childhood, now in its 4th Edition, continues to build momentum for centring equity, tackling bias and creating beautiful ethical learning experiences and environments with and for children in the early years.
Diversity in the early years : intercultural learning and teaching
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Diversity in the Early Years examines young children in global contexts and the affordances of intercultural approaches to diversity and inclusion in early childhood education.
Supporting Gender Diversity in Early Childhood Classrooms
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By offering practical steps for adults who work with young children to build inclusive and intentional spaces where all children receive positive messages about their unique gender selves, this book increases awareness about gender diversity in learning environments such as child care centres, family child care homes and preschools. The book is based on some of the most progressive, modern understandings of gender and intersectionality, as well as research on child development, gender health, trauma informed practices and the science of adult learning. By including the voices and lived experiences of gender-expansive children, transgender adults, early childhood educators and parents and family members of trans and gender-expansive children, it contextualizes what it means to rethink early learning programs with a commitment to gender justice and gender equality for all children.
Guidance for supporting gender diversity in Early Childhood Education
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The Early Childhood Educator for Certificate III
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For the student, this new and updated resource offers engaging content that is easily accessible and effective in helping to consolidate and apply learning, with localised content to enhance understanding of concepts. For the instructor, the updated text promises training resources that are current and relevant to industry standards and practice
Learning and Teaching in Early Childhood
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Learning and Teaching in Early Childhood: Pedagogies of Inquiry and Relationships is an introduction for early childhood educators beginning their studies. Reflecting the fact that there is no single correct approach to the challenges of teaching, this book explores teaching through two lenses: teaching as inquiry and teaching as relating.
Teaching : early childhood, primary and secondary
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'Teaching' is a comprehensive text for beginning teachers which focuses on teacher practice, research developments, and helping you become a confident and competent practitioner in a diverse and changing world.The text identifies the knowledge and skills needed for the teaching and learning process, and also explores the planning, teaching and assessing cycle.
The child in focus
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Educational psychology : for learning and teaching
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Educational Psychology for Learning and Teaching explores the development of the learner over time, the learning process, individual differences in the classroom, as well as educational psychology in contemporary classrooms.
Identity, Culture and Belonging
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Tony Eaude argues that the foundations of a robust but flexible identity are formed in early childhood and that children live within many intersecting and sometimes conflicting cultures.
Strong Foundations
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Strong Foundations: Evidence informing practice in early childhood education and care celebrates the progress made by the Australian early childhood education and care profession since the implementation of the Early Years Learning Framework. Recognising this progress, Associate Professor Anna Kilderry and Honorary Professor Bridie Raban lead a team of 33 notable contributors from 11 universities and institutions across Australia, who focus on the challenges of access, equity and quality that remain across the sector.
The EYLF and NQS without tears
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The EYLF and NQS without Tears - Third edition has been revised to reassure educators that meeting the requirements of the new National Quality Framework is indeed achievable.
Children and Environmental Toxins
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More than 80,000 new chemicals have been developed and released into the global environment during the last four decades. Today the World Health Organization attributes more than one-third of all childhood deaths to environmental causes, and as rates of childhood disease skyrocket - autism,asthma, ADHD, obesity, diabetes, and even birth defects - it raises serious, difficult questions around how the chemical environment is impacting children's health.Children and Environmental Toxins: What Everyone Needs to KnowRG offers an accessible guide to understanding and identifying the potential sources of harm in a child's environment. Written by experts in pediatrics and environmental health and formatted in an easy to follow question-and-answer format,it offers parents, care providers, and activists a reliable introduction to a hotly debated topic.As the burdens of environmental toxins and disease continue to defy borders, this book provides a new benchmark to understanding the potential threats in our environment and food. No parent or care provider should be without it.
Coping with Crisis
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This practical book is useful both for inspection preparation and helping to promote the ongoing importance of personal responsibility and commitment to children's safety and well-being.
Managing infectious diseases in child care and schools
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This award-winning guide provides child care directors, teachers, and caregivers with essential information on the prevention and management of infectious diseases in group care settings. The newly revised and updated fifth edition is aligned with the most recent version of the premier AAP source of information on infectious diseases, Red Book ® : 2018-2021 Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases, 31st Edition.
50 Risks to Take with Your Kids
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When we take risks with our kids, we teach them to be better adults. 50 Risks to Take With Your Kids teaches parents and carers how to nurture resilience in their kids as they learn to take their own risks.
IndigiSTEM Activities Workbook
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Teachers notes about Indigenous culture / knowledge which correspond to the 20 easy to follow, fun STEM activities in the IndigiSTEM Activities Workbook.
IndigiSTEM Caring for Country Workbook
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The IndigiSTEM – Caring for Country Workbook provides instructions for 10 outdoor play-based activities for early learners, each with an Indigenous context. Each activity includes Teaching Notes to draw upon and easily incorporate information about Indigenous culture into your learning session. The perfect resource for your kindy or preschool!
IndigiSTEM Educator Notes for IndigiSTEM Activities Workbook
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Educator Notes to accompany the IndigiSTEM Activities Workbook. Teachers notes about Indigenous culture / knowledge which correspond to the 20 easy to follow, fun STEM activities in the IndigiSTEM Activities Workbook.
Voices and visions: aboriginal early childhood education in Australia
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Just as our visions will be the present of some young Aboriginal children who are not yet born, these will be made real through our voices and actions right now. The question begs to be asked: ‘What kind of people do we want those children of the future to remember us as being?’
Waetnanda ngootoowan waka thiyama-ki: An Aboriginal Early Years Activity Resource for Teachers and Parents
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50 Fantastic Ideas for Children with EAL
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Every year, an increasing number of children enter the Early Years setting either new to English or with English as an additional language (EAL), which can be daunting, not just for the child but for the practitioner too. How can Early Years practitioners ensure that the right support is in place for the child and themselves? What practical ideas can be used successfully to enrich an EAL child's understanding of a new language, while, at the same time, allowing that child to bond with their peers? 50 Fantastic Ideas for Children with EAL is an invaluable resource to help integrate children with EAL into the classroom with fresh, exciting and engaging activities that are easy to resource, require little preparation and are fun to carry out.
Language, Literacy & Early Childhood Education
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A comprehensive textbook on language and literacy development in early childhoodLanguage, Literacy and Early Childhood Education, third edition, focuses on language and literacy development in children from birth to age eight, with a particular emphasis on four to eight year olds. It describes pedagogical practices that will allow pre-service teachers to plan for play-based learning while also employing other approaches such as explicit teaching, collaborative learning and learning though exploration and discovery
Literacies in Early Childhood
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A collection of expert voices on the theoretical frameworks and approaches for teaching literacy in the early childhood years. Literacies in Early Childhood: Foundations for Equity and Quality is a rigorous and engaging foundational text that offers access to a broad range of voices and perspectives on quality literacy learning and teaching, and on how equity and literacy come together in education. It takes a deliberately balanced approach to literacy learning in early childhood education, and values the child as a learner and respects the teacher as a professional. Structured across four parts, it aims to open discussion and encourage quality and equity in literacy education across schools and early childhood education contexts.
Early Childhood Leadership in Action
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The principles and practice of confident and creative leadership for early childhood pre-service teachers and educators
The Montessori Baby
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It’s time to change the way we see babies. Drawing on principles developed by the educator Dr Maria Montessori, The Montessori Baby shows how to raise your baby from birth to age one with love, respect, insight, and a surprising sense of calm.
Montessori For Every Family : A practical parenting guide to living, loving and learning
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Montessori is accessible to everyone. This beautiful, modern book outlines the key principles that underpin the approach and makes applying them immediate and practical for every family.
The Montessori Toddler
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Turn your home into a Montessori home—and become a more mindful, attentive, and easygoing parent. It’s time to change the way we see toddlers.
50 fantastic ideas for songs and rhymes
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50 Fantastic Ideas for Songs and Rhymes offers a mixture of traditional favourites, fresh alternatives to well-known rhymes, action songs, original rhythms and funny verse that will have everyone giggling.
The Musical Child
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A pioneering music educator reveals how music can supercharge early childhood development -and how parents and educators can harness it's power.
100 ideas for early years practitioners: observation, assessment and planning
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100 Ideas for Early Years Practitioners- Observation, Assessment & Planning is not only filled with easy to implement and practical ideas for the early years classroom, but it also demonstrates why assessment is an important formative tool to help further children 's learning.
Child Observation
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This is a key text for all those studying for degrees and foundation degrees in early childhood, early years and related disciplines and for Early Years Teacher candidates. It enables students to appreciate and understand the central role of observation for understanding, planning for and educating early years children.
Early years learning in Australian natural environments : immersive nature play programs
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Equip your students with the theoretical and practical knowledge to thrive outdoors in natural learning environments.
Developing and Administering an Early Childhood Education Program
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Whether you direct, administrate or lead early childhood education, DEVELOPING AND ADMINISTERING AN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION PROGRAM, 10E provides the knowledge and skills you need for success. This comprehensive edition highlights the director's role in leading both people and programs, with an emphasis on business and interpersonal skills.
Programme Planning for Infants and Toddlers, 3rd Edition
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Program Planning is designed as a resource for students and caregivers of infants and toddlers in group settings. it supports the curricula of both New Zealand and Australia, with particular reference to how these curricula relate to children three years and under.
Programming and planning in early childhood settings
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This revised and updated eighth edition shows you how chapters of the text are relevant to the Australian Professional Standards for teachers. It includes real-life examples, reflections, and case studies to help you understand educational theories, philosophies and frameworks.
Bringing STEM to life
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This book supports professionals in the early childhood field to:
thoroughly understand the concept of STEM
realise that in a quality play-based program there should be no need for ‘extra’ programs or curricula to ensure that children develop skills related to STEM
see that these skills are already facilitated by our rich environments, resources, interactions and practice with children and by the child’s own innate curiosity and playfulness
IndigiSTEM Activities Workbook
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Teachers notes about Indigenous culture / knowledge which correspond to the 20 easy to follow, fun STEM activities in the IndigiSTEM Activities Workbook.
IndigiSTEM Caring for Country Workbook
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The IndigiSTEM – Caring for Country Workbook provides instructions for 10 outdoor play-based activities for early learners, each with an Indigenous context. Each activity includes Teaching Notes to draw upon and easily incorporate information about Indigenous culture into your learning session. The perfect resource for your kindy or preschool!
IndigiSTEM Educator Notes for IndigiSTEM Activities Workbook
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Educator Notes to accompany the IndigiSTEM Activities Workbook. Teachers notes about Indigenous culture / knowledge which correspond to the 20 easy to follow, fun STEM activities in the IndigiSTEM Activities Workbook.
Science in Early Childhood
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Now in its fourth edition, Science in Early Childhood provides a comprehensive and engaging introduction to science in the early years.
Steam Concepts for Infants and Toddlers
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STEAM is a development and extension of the original STEM efforts with the goal to support innate creativity and innovation that all children possess. This book serves as a platform for educators to observe and facilitate infants and toddlers natural curiosities around STEAM concepts. The text discusses tangible, rich STEAM learning environments for children from birth through age two and introduces where this learning can go next as children transition into the preschool years.
Super STEAM Activity Book
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Introduce kids ages 3 to 5 to the amazing world of STEAM Learning all about science, technology, engineering, art, and math sets kids up for scholastic success--and it can be so much fun!
Technologies for Children with VitalSource Enhanced Ebook
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Technologies for Children explores how traditional technologies can be repurposed and re-imagined in educational environments to engage students in interactive and authentic ways. Closely aligned with both the Australian Curriculum: Technologies and the Early Years Learning Framework, it covers theory and provides practical ideas for teaching infants, toddlers, pre-schoolers and primary school children. Each chapter focuses on different aspects of technologies education, such as engineering principles and systems, food and fibre, creativity in design, and preferred futures.
The Ramped up Read Aloud
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The read alouds in this book will help teachers: Foster a strong sense of community Celebrate the written (and illustrated) word Build a foundation for future reading and learning Expand vocabulary (with a focus on Tier 2 words) Support budding writers Spark collaborative conversations Encourage perspective-taking, empathy, and a growth mindset.
Storytelling and Story-Reading in Early Years
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When a practitioner can tell and read stories well, it is proven to significantly improve young children's early communication and literacy. In this easy-to-read and essential guide, storytelling trainer Mary Medlicott gives professionals the tools to get the best out of oral storytelling and story-reading sessions, with management, performance and language techniques.
Using stories to support learning and development in early childhood : a practical guide
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This book is an exploration of story and its importance in early childhood. It provides a thorough theoretical foundation, and considers how to practically implement the use of stories to aid children's wellbeing and holistic development.
Children's Transitions in Everyday Life and Institutions
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Written by a team of international contributors and featuring case studies from a range of educational settings in Australia, Denmark, Spain, Sweden, and the USA, this edited book is the first in the field of early childhood and youth studies to draw on Vygotsky's cultural-historical theory to give insights into transitions in childhood, what they are and how they are differently experienced. Transitions are explored holistically so the chapters not only focus on the person transitioning but also the institutions in which the person is transitioning from and to, with a focus on schools and daycare.
Supporting Difficult Transitions
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The international contributors to Supporting Difficult Transitions discuss examples of transitions that are problematic for children, young people and their carers. Focusing on vulnerable children and young people, the transitions include: starting school, changing schools, starting work, entering a new culture or a culture that has been changed to focusing on vulnerable children and young people.
The Handbook of Therapeutic Care for Children
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This innovative book brings together a wide range of therapeutic approaches, techniques and models to outline recent developments in the practice of supporting children in out-of-home care. It sheds light on the significance of schools, sports and peer relationships in the lives of traumatized children. It also draws particular attention to the vital importance of taking into account children's cultural heritage, and to the growing prevalence of relative care. Each chapter is set out by acclaimed and world-renowned contributors' specific approach, such as Dan Hughes and his work on conceptual maps and Cathy Malchiodi and her research on creative interventions, and gives practical ways to support children and carers. It also includes contributions from Bruce Perry, Allan Schore and Martin Teicher. This comprehensive volume will open new avenues for understanding how the relationship between child and carer can create opportunities for change and healing.
More Creative Coping Skills for Children
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This collection of fun and adaptable activities, games, stories and handouts is a complete resource for supporting children coping with stress and difficult emotions. From engaging arts and crafts, to interactive stories and relaxing meditations, all the interventions and activities are thematically structured so that each chapter contains the means for building specific skills or overcoming behavioral issues. Each chapter contains suggested goals, positive affirmations and photocopiable handouts to enable a child to continue practising and learning new life skills outside of sessions with parents or professionals. The activities in this book are ideal for use with children aged 3-12 to help them rebalance and gain a strong grasp on their emotions.
The Simple Guide to Child Trauma
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· What is trauma? · How does it affect children? · How can adults help? Providing straightforward answers to these complex questions, The Simple Guide to Child Trauma is the perfect starting point for any adult caring for or working with a child who has experienced trauma. It will help them to understand more about a child's emotional and behavioural responses following trauma and provides welcome strategies to aid recovery.
The School Bereavement Toolkit
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Practical and accessible, this guidebook is designed to help staff in schools support bereaved children in their care
50 Risks to Take with Your Kids
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When we take risks with our kids, we teach them to be better adults. 50 Risks to Take With Your Kids teaches parents and carers how to nurture resilience in their kids as they learn to take their own risks.
Calm: mindfulness flash cards for kids
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Mindfulness is a big word for a simple idea - to pay attention, with care, to one moment at a time. The perfect introduction to mindfulness, this box of 40 cards teaches children how to be mindful by focusing their thoughts and noticing the world around them using fun activities.Children can choose what they need and select an appropriate activity, be it reflective, one that will improve focus, or a calming exercise.
Happy, Healthy Minds
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An essential guide to emotional well-being for children; tackling everyday issues to facilitate happier, healthier lives.
Healthy Mindsets for Little Kids
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This flexible, early-intervention programme utilises hands-on activities and worksheets to address behaviour issues and teach core resilience skills in children aged 5-9. Based around ten guided modules, each with their own animal character, the 'Healthy Mindsets' approach helps adults to assist children in building resilience across a wide variety of themes including attachment, discipline, anger management, conflict resolution, positive body image and self-esteem, grief and loss, and anxiety.
Improving the Psychological Wellbeing of Children and Young People
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Written for professionals spanning children's services, this must-read guide provides an authoritative overview of what shapes the psychological wellbeing of children and young people - from perinatal care and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) through to their socioeconomic circumstances, schools and the wider community.
My First Book of Mindfulness
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This book will let children understand in an easy and funny way, all the mindfulness principles, enhancing the kids' empathic skills with games and exercises to be done alone or with the family.
Positive Body Image in the Early Years
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Promote positive body image, build self-esteem and tackle body confidence issues in young children with this practical guide.
Worry-proofing your anxious child
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From the bestselling author of Living with IT and Taming the Black Dog comes a practical guide for parents of anxious children. If your child is too often: seeks reassurance, invents illnesses, avoids interactions, avoids trying new things, becomes emotional over minor upsets, or is clingy, afraid to sleep alone, reluctant to go to school or scared of numerous things ... then anxiety could be an issue for them. Commonly, a child experiencing anxiety doubts themselves, lacks confidence and becomes easily overwhelmed.
Zen Zoo
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With 20 positive affirmation cards and 20 interactive action cards, this mindful pack offers emotional support and guidance for children, along with blank cards for them to write their very own affirmations.
Lest we forget
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This bestselling picture book about a boy and his grandfather will help even the very young understand the significance of ANZAC Day. 'My granddad says there are two types of days: those you want to remember and those you want to forget ...' A young boy visits his granddad and thinks about the important days in his life: his first day of school, playing soccer with his team, the day his baby sister was born.
Leave Me Alone
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In this sensitively told story, a little boy is feeling sad because every day he has to face a bully. But the little boy also has friends. A frog, a cat, a rabbit, a cow, and other animal friends insist on helping him, even after he tells them: "There's nothing you can do for me/ There's nothing you can say." Fortunately, he is mistaken, because the next time the bully approaches, they all join with him and shout, "LEAVE HIM ALONE!" And it works!
The Bushfire Book: how to be aware and prepare
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An accessible and reassuring picture book that teaches children what they need to know about bushfires so they can understand what's happening and be smart and prepared, not scared.
Fire
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One small spark brought fire awake, Winding like a small black snake, Fire flickered, fire crept, Flames snickered, bushfire leapt... Inspired by the bushfires that have affected many Australians, Fire is a moving and sensitive story of a natural disaster as seen through the eyes of a cockatoo. The fire mercilessly engulfs homes and land, leaving a devastating path of destruction.
Red house, blue house, green house, tree house
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From a dynamic author-illustrator team comes this fresh, fun and rhythmic exploration of colour. Bold and bright, it's the perfect book for reading aloud and sharing with young children as they learn to identify the colours of their world.
ABC of Body Safety and Consent
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The 26 ‘key’ letters and accompanying words will help children to learn and consolidate age-appropriate, crucial and life-changing body safety and consent skills.
Pandemic
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The war carried the Spanish flu across the world. Faces grew masks. Shops and schools wore signs that said, 'Closed'. Families nursing the sick drew their curtains together to say their house was quarantined... From the award-winning creators of Flood, Fire, Cyclone and Drought, comes this powerful story of humanity prevailing during a pandemic.
ABC for Me: ABC Let's Celebrate You and Me
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ABC Let's Celebrate You & Me presents a whole alphabet full of positive qualities kids can celebrate about themselves, including both physical and character attributes.
Danny and the Blue Cloud
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Danny was born under a blue cloud. He didn't know why, but sometimes the cloud made him cry. Some days he didn't want to get out of bed. Some days he was one big GROWL! With the help of Barnaby the rabbit, Danny learns to think more helpful thoughts, feel better about himself, and dance his way into a better mood! He practices Barnaby's ""Feel-Good Rules"" until his cloud turns lighter and brighter. Eventually, Danny learns that he has the power to turn even the biggest, bluest cloud into a beautiful rainbow!
How are you feeling today?
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We all experience emotions and emotions are absolutely fine as long as we know what to do with them. Feelings arrive effortlessly enough but deciding what to do with them when they turn isn't so easy - especially when you are a child. Cue- this book! It provides children with several straightforward, entertaining and appropriate interactive ideas to help them deal with a selection of significant emotions. A great dip-in book where children can choose a feeling that relates to them and then turn to the page that provides child- friendly strategies for dealing with that feeling. Helpful parent notes at the back of the book provide more ideas for parents to use with their child and other strategies to try out together and practice the all important skill of dealing with feelings.
Talking about Feelings
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The aim of this book is to assist adults in helping children unpack, understand and manage their feelings and emotions in an engaging and interactive way. This book can be used by parents, caregivers, teachers and/or health professionals who may have specific concerns about a child, or who simply wish to 'check in' to see how their child is fairing, and is an ideal addition to their 'toolkit'.
How we lived in ancient times
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A fantastic new way to learn about the rich and varied cultures of the ancient world - see how everyday children used to live, eat, work and play.
ABC for Me: ABC Mindful Me
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See each letter of the alphabet paired with a word that teaches young children important mindfulness topics, like compassion, breathing, empathy, gratitude, and kindness.
Can You Hear the Trees Talking?
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Based on the New York Times bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees, this interactive, illustrated book for ages 8-10 introduces kids to the forest through outdoor activities, quizzes, fun facts, photographs, and more!
Let's Get Gardening
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Let's Get Gardening is a wonderful start to building any child's green thumb and encouraging them to do their bit for the environment. This book includes three simple chapters - kitchen gardening, wildlife gardening and recycled gardening - each with easy sustainability projects to inspire everyone's inner eco-kid.
Let's Play Outdoors!
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A book that encourages children to go and play outside and discover what nature has to offer. Leave the house and roam into the nature: It is a fascinating place, waiting to be conquered by little ones with curious minds. Whether in the garden, park, or a nearby forest, a closer look at nature will draw out budding architects, their first constructions built from stones, branches, and leaves; a thorough investigation of trees will reveal all kinds of insects; and listening to the animals around will teach their sounds.
Our Planet: the one place we all call home
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The official children's book to the Netflix original documentary series, Our Planet, with a foreword by Sir David Attenborough. This glorious visual celebration of the natural world combines extraordinary photography from the series with stunning illustrations from acclaimed artist, Richard Jones. Lose yourself in icy landscapes, dense jungles and endless oceans.
What's Out There?: amazing plants, rocks, creatures and cultures that make Australia extraordinary
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We all know about kangaroos, koalas and gum trees, but have you ever heard of the pademelon, handfish or idiot fruit tree? Would you recognise a wombat poo or the cry of a yellow wattlebird, or know how to say kangaroo in Guuguyimithirr? Australia is old. Really old. We are the home of the oldest living plant, oldest animal fossils and the oldest continuing culture of people on Earth. In What's Out There , you can dig, dive and delve your way through Australia from the time of Gondwanaland and megafauna through to today, learning about some of the most amazing plants, rocks, creatures and cultures that make up this extraordinary country.
Life Cycles
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Shoot back in time 4.5 billion years to see how planet Earth was formed and then leap into the future to see what happens when stars die. Everything has a beginning and an end, but what happens in between? Each page focuses on at least one life cycle. Meet dolphins jumping in the ocean waves, penguins travelling on the ice, and butterflies fluttering in the sky. You'll take a closer look at the life cycles of environments, too. Discover how a river forms and changes over time. Find out how a tree grows and all of the other life cycles it supports within it. See the amazing sculptures the oceans make out of cliffs.
No way! : the wildest mind-blowing facts in the universe
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This beautifully designed children's book is filled to the brim with facts, challenges and questions that will teach you all the wildest and weirdest things about the world around you!
Some Dogs Do
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All dogs walk and jump and run, but dogs don't fly - it can't be done, can it? Jez Alborough's uplifting tale is for anyone who has ever, just for a second, stopped believing in miracles.
The Wonderful Fluffy Little Squishy
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Eddie is five and a half, and thinks she is the only one in her family who isn't really good at something. So when she hears her little sister say "birthday--Mommy--fluffy--little--squishy," it's extra important for her to find this amazing present before anyone else does. So, gregarious, charming, clever little Eddie goes all around the neighborhood to all her fabulous friends--the florist, the chic boutique owner, the antiques dealer, and even the intimidating butcher--to find one
