## 5 Essential Titles For Your Structured Literacy Bookshelf At Brookes, we collaborate with the experts on literacy resources that support evidence-based reading instruction. To aid in your fall curriculum planning, we’ve compiled brief snapshots of five of our most essential titles on science-based reading instruction. ## 6 Brookes Authors Offer Tips on Keeping Parents Engaged This Fall (Whether School Buildings Open or Not) We don’t know yet what school will look like after summer break, but Brookes authors Paula Kluth, Jen Alexander, Loui Lord Nelson, Nicole Eredics, Elizabeth Potts, and Jennifer Mahdavi have shared some great parent engagement tips you can use no matter what learning plan is adopted in your district this fall. [Read More](/content/resource-library/6-brookes-authors-offer-tips-keeping-parents-engaged-fall/index.html) ## 5 Language & Literacy Tools You Might Not Know About (But Should!) Did you know there’s a reliable assessment tool for determining whether a young bilingual child’s language difficulties are due to a delay or limited exposure to English? We’ll introduce you to BESA™ (Bilingual English-Spanish Assessment™) and four other essential screening and assessment tools in this month’s feature article. [Read More](/content/resource-library/5-language-literacy-tools-might-not-know/index.html) ## The 5 Features of Successful Coaching This article, adapted from The Early Childhood Coaching Handbook, Second Edition, will take you through the five important features of coaching and give you examples that illustrate each trait in action. [Read More](/content/resource-library/5-features-successful-coaching/index.html) ## 5 Key Principles for Preventing Challenging Behavior Challenging behaviors that begin in preschool classrooms often continue through adulthood. To combat this, more early childhood programs are adopting preventative strategies for coping with challenging behavior. This article examines 5 principles—adapted from Early Social-Emotional Development—to keep in mind when developing a proactive approach to promoting social-emotional growth for all children. [Read More](/content/resource-library/5-key-principles-preventing-challenging-behavior/index.html) ## Are you getting the full picture of child development? It is common knowledge that young children should be screened early and often to monitor development, celebrate milestones, and identify possible delays. But you can get an even fuller picture—one that also focuses on both development and social-emotional well-being—by adding Ages & Stages Questionnaires®: Social-Emotional, Second Edition (ASQ®: SE-2) to your screening program. Learn more about integrating social-emotional screening into your program in this newsletter! [Read More](/content/resource-library/getting-full-picture-child-development/index.html) ## Try these fun summer activities with young children! As we move into the hazy days of summer, guide children's play in ways that will help them develop skills that will serve as launching pads for learning. [Read More](/content/resource-library/try-fun-summer-activities-young-children/index.html) ## How to use ASQ Learning Activities to support child development Positive parent–child interaction is a key driver of age-appropriate development. [Read More](/content/resource-library/use-asq-learning-activities-support-child-development/index.html) ## Keep students with disabilities from dropping out of school Why do students drop out of school, and what can educators do to keep them engaged? [Read More](/content/resource-library/keep-students-disabilities-dropping-school/index.html) ## Social-emotional development in young children One of the strongest indicators for school readiness and future success is how well a child manages emotions and social interactions. [Read More](/content/resource-library/social-emotional-development-young-children/index.html)