Includes one of each:

MakerSpaces

Makerspaces is a first-to-market resource for early childhood professionals that focuses on how to cultivate the maker mind-set in the youngest learners, how to engage young children in maker-centered learning, design and introduce makerspaces, and how to select/use open-ended tools and materials.

Field tested in real classrooms, home settings, libraries, and museums, the authors have practical suggestions, student samples, implementers’ suggestions, photographs, anchor charts, and many other forms of documentation. Each chapter focuses on a different type of makerspace, details ways to successfully set up that makerspaces, offers provocation ideas for how to extend learning, and shows how educators can document evidence of how a child can develop a stronger growth mind-set by interacting with the makerspace.

Full-color demonstrative photos give readers additional visual guidance.

184 pages

StoryMaking

Learning Magazine 2020 Teachers’ Choice Award for Preschool winner!

StoryMaking is a first-to-market book celebrating the multimodal literacies and learning that are demonstrated by young children as they imagine, play, make, and share their stories. It encourages inquiry-based play to develop literacy, and combines:

• Story-retelling and story creation
• the Maker Movement—a creative and technological revolution in education that is underway around the globe
• the importance of play in the early learning curriculum
• Reggio theory

It’s the practice of communicating a variety of ways (e.g. language, gesture, images) over various systems (e.g. visual, audible, physical), and moving children forward in their literacy learning. This book shares the processes, first steps, materials, practical suggestions, student samples, documentation forms, and over 100 full-color photos so teachers can implement their own version of StoryMaking in their classrooms.

176 pages

ArtMaking

ArtMaking is a process of making meaning by reading children's books, investigating how this meaning is expressed and then inviting the child to use art to communicate their own meaning. It is the perfect language to give all children a voice, regardless of age or ability. In ArtMaking children are invited to "read their worlds" as they learn about images, explore materials and elements of art (color, lines, shapes, textures, spaces, design) and communicate their thinking through their own art processes and products. Along the way these skills build a strong literacy foundation.

Using artwork as well as illustrations from children's books as provocations, children make meaning with their visual literacy skills as they use the receptive and productive languages of literacy and art to make connections. When children engage in ArtMaking they apply the highest level of the comprehension and visual literacy continuums to new art experiences and makerspaces. They aren't just making art, they are making meaning of the book and the world.

176 pages.

StoryMakers on Deck [card set]

From the award-winning authors of StoryMaking easily accessible card decks that will inspire educators and children to use simple materials to make stories and projects.

The StoryMakers on Deck cards inspire educators and children to use simple materials to make stories and projects. The cards are divided into six categories of story elements: generating story ideas, crafting a lead, imagining a character, making a setting, elaborating the story, and closing the story.

Each card includes:

A beautiful photograph of a commonly found open-ended loose part.

An open-ended question that the adult can use to launch an exploration as children play and make a story.

A photograph of a child created story using the material pictured to serve as an example. The story's text or child's dictation from a portion of their Maker's Talk accompanies the stories and projects.

Tips for how you can use this card to spark the imaginations and grow the abilities of young StoryMakers.

84 pages (40 cards).