Print awareness activities for 12 popular children's tales and stories put fun into learning to read and write. Children create charts or visual displays that involve them in the reading and writing process and encourage them to imitate important literacy behaviors. Provides six stimulating projects for each story. This second edition includes a new section with patterns that make teaching each unit even easier!

Encourage even the most timid students to break out of their shells with more than 150 non-threatening theatre games and exercises. Extension activities enhance other subject area, plus this hands-on approach to learning helps promote personal growth and self-esteem both in the classroom setting and in everyday situations.

Get beginning readers on their way to successful reading with 20 reproducible little books for short vowel sounds. Developed by a respected expert in emergent literarcy, each illustrated book is designed to be reproduced, colored, and taken home for sharing with families.

Help children learn by tapping into their fascination with animals of every shape and size. More than 170 open-ended science activities engage children in discovering the world around them by exploring textures and learning intriguing facts about such animals as elephants, porcupines, crocodiles, flamingos, koalas, camels, and anteaters. Children get involved in science, social studies, math, and language arts through these stimulating hands-on activities.

Engage young children in 121 manipulative math experiences that help them discover concepts naturally. Age-appropriate activities use easy-to-find materials. Includes take-home projects to stimulate parent-child interaction. Ages 3-6

Pretending is learning with 24 fully developed dramatic play centers, complete with reproducible activities. Children practice literacy-related behaviors, develop interpersonal communication, and learn about the world while playing school, pet store, travel agency, museum, and more!

Introduce children to the alphabet with these 26 reproducible little books, one for each letter, one for every child. Texts are high-interest, easy-to-recite, and clearly illustrated to engage young children in learning. An ideal resource at school or home for children learning to recognize letters and their corresponding sounds.

Help foster emergent literacy and teach young children how print relates to their daily lives with a wide variety of hands-on and literacy-related props. Learn hundreds of ways to incorporate print into every aspect of the early childhood curriculum.

Learning and playing go hand-in-hand with this indispensable resource. More than 200 play activities and more than 800 extensions and variations fit all kinds of situations and teaching styles.
1,001 Activites for Young Children, Ages 2-6

"Playing fits well into the 'real world' curriculum. It provides hands-on experiences, uses many materials commonly found around home and school, considers the development of the 'whole child,' integrates content areas, and provides opportunities for children to try out real-life experieces.
"I especially like the respect the author demonstrates for children. They are allowed to solve problems, make choices, and be creative with open-ended activites.
"This stimulating play collection will have children looking forward to washing rocks, squeezing sponges to see how much water they hold, blowing objects over to see how much breath is required, and completing a human puzzle!"
-Dr. Janet Stone, Corporate Work & Resouces Counselor; former preschool director and college professor

About the Author
For over twenty years, Sandra J. Stone has been involved in teaching, research, and curriculum development in early childhood and elementary education. She holds an Ed.D. in Early Childhood Education from Arizona State University.

Available now! Choose from over 24 thematic units and over 1,400 child-centered learning activities for a wholly integrated, developmentally sound program. Authoritative and practical guide to theme teaching.

A rich array of activities get children cutting, pasting, and creating as they learn, recite, and practice the vowel sounds they hear and use every day. Activities range from worksheets to performing skits and appeal to auditory, tactile, and visual learning styles. Covers long, short, and r-controlled vowels. Perfect for school and home.