pre-k Archives - Brookes Publishing Co.

Sample Unit: Winter Vocabulary

This excerpt from PAVEd for Success provides pre-K and kindergarten teachers with common winter vocabulary terms and strategies for introducing them to their students. Read More

10 Tips for super spatial skills

This infographic provides easy, fun, and effective ways to boost spatial development in your pre-k or kindergarten students. Read More

Piagetian Thoughts on Preschoolers’ and Kindergartners’ Spatial Development

Excerpted from Blocks and Beyond, this passage demonstrates how one aspect of math relates to spatial development in preschoolers and kindergarteners. Blocks and Beyond helps educators create a curriculum that actively promotes spatial development and sets the stage for strong math, science, and other academic skills. Read More

Strategies to support language arts and emerging literacy skills

In this excerpt, learn how to ensure that your child enters kindergarten with the prerequisite literacy skills necessary to learn how to read. Read More

Coach/Supervisor Observation Checklist Instructions

Effective professional development should be supportive, intensive, and continuous, with individualized feedback and positive mentoring. This checklist from PAVEd for Success is designed for a 90-minute classroom observation. Read More

How do children benefit from inclusion

This chapter from First Steps to Preschool Inclusion uses research to share how preschoolers both with and without disabilities benefit from participating in high-quality inclusive environments. Read More

Early Language and Literacy Classroom Observation Tool, Pre-K (ELLCO Pre-K) technical appendix

Read the technical appendix for the Early Language and Literacy Classroom Observation Tool, Pre-K (ELLCO Pre-K). ELLCO is the bestselling classroom observation tool that helps schools assess the quality of literacy practices and supports and give children the best possible start in language and literacy development. Read More

ELLCO Pre-K Toolkit Technical Appendix

This technical appendix reports data that were collected from 1997 to 2002 as part of the development of the ELLCO Toolkit, Research Edition, as well as additional data that were collected from 2002 to 2007 using the Research Edition. Read More