Early Childhood Resources/Links

Resources

• Study Shows Impact of Early Education on School Success
  
• Early Childhood Research & Practice (ECRP)
• Early Childhood Development - Kentucky Department of Education
• New Teacher Standards for Preparation and Certification: Interdisciplinary Early Childhood Education Birth to Primary
• Early Childhood Education - U.S. Department of Education
• PBS Teachers - Early Childhood
• National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center
• National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities

Links

• Early Childhood Education Assembly
• Free Reading
• Early Childhood Today - Scholastic
• National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
• Zero to Three
• National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC)
• National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER)
• Kentucky Association for Early Childhood Education (KAECE)
• National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL)
  
• Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center
• Education Commission of the States
• National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI)
  

Publications

• Copple, C., & Bredekamp, K. (2008). Developmentally Appropriate Practice in early childhood programs (3rd ed.). Washington, D.C: NAEYC.

• Enz, B.J., & Morrow, L. M. (2009). Assessing preschool literacy development: Informal and formal measures to guide instruction (2nd ed.). Newark, DE: International Reading Association.

• Epstein, A. (2007). The intentional teacher. Washington, D.C: NAEYC.

• Helm, J. H., & Katz, L. (2001). Young investigators: The project approach in the early years.New York: Teachers College Press.

• Kemple, M. & Lopez, M. (2009). Blue eyes, brown eyes, cornrows ,and curls: Building on books to explore physical diversity with preschool children. Dimensions of Early Childhood, 37 (1), 23-30.

• Kirkland, L., Aldridge, J., & Kuby, P (2007). Integrating environmental print across the curriculum, Pre-K: Making literacy instruction meaningful. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

• Lonigan, C. J, & Shanahan, T. (2009). Developing early literacy: Report of the National Early Literacy Panel Executive Summary. National Institute for Literacy and National Center for Family Literacy.

• Morrow, L. M., Freitag, E. & Gambrell, L. B. (2009). Using children's literature in preschool to develop comprehension (2nd ed.). Newark, DE: International Reading Association. 

• Neuman, S. B., & Roskos, K. (2005). Whatever happened to developmentally appropriate practice in early literacy? Young Children, 60(4), 22-26.

• Prior, J. (2009). Environmental print: Real-world early reading. Dimensions of Early Childhood, 37(1), 9-13.

• Pristo, H. V. (2009). One language, Two languages, Three languages...More? Beyond the Journal, Young Children on the Web. Retrieved May 26, 2009, from http://journal.naeyc.org/btj/200905/

• Renck J. M. (2004). Young Children and Picture Books (2nd ed.). Washington, DC: NAEYC.

• Roskos, K.A., Tabors, P.O., & Lenhart, L.A. (2009). Oral language and early literacy in preschool: Talking, reading and writing (2nd ed.). Newark, DE: International Reading Association.

• Schickedanz, J.A., & Casbergue, R.M. (2009). Writing in preschool: Learning to orchestrate meaning and marks (2nd ed.). Newark, DE: International Reading Association.

• Seefeldt, C.& Galper, A. (2001). Active experiences for active children: Literacy emerges. Merrill, WI: Merrill Publishing.

• Smith, M., Brady, J., & Anastasopoulos, L. (2008). User guide to the early language and literacy classroom observation, Pre-K tool. Baltimore: Brookes Publishing.

• Strickland, D.S., & Schickedanz, J.A. (2009). Learning about print in preschool: Working with letters, words and beginning links with phonetic awareness (2nd ed.). Newark, DE: International Reading Association.

• Townley, K., & Rous, B. (2003). Building a strong foundation for school success; Kentucky's early childhood standards. Frankfort, KY: Kentucky Department of Education.

• Vukelich, C., & Christie, J. (2009). Building a foundation for preschool literacy: Effective instruction for children's reading and writing development (2nd ed.). Newark, DE: International Reading Association.