Gaye Gronlund, MA

Planning for Play, Observation, and Learning in Preschool and Kindergarten

Author: Gaye Gronlund

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Play is an important vehicle for learning in the early years. With intentional planning frameworks, Planning for Play, Observation, and Learning in Preschool and Kindergarten provides tools and strategies to organize and develop curriculum around high-level, purposeful play. Practical application techniques help you create a cycle of planning and observation as they use a play-based curriculum to help young children thrive in your classroom.

232 pages

Softbound $36.95

e-book $36.95

Make Early Learning Standards Come Alive, Second Edition: Connecting Your Practice and Curriculum to State Guidelines

Author: Gaye Gronlund

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Updated to reflect the continuing evolution of early learning standards, this book offers help and hints, support and clarification, and clear explanations of how you can make early learning standards come alive in your early childhood classroom or program. You'll find tools to communicate exactly how you are addressing children's learning as you plan for cognitive and foundational skill development, as well as suggestions to assess children's progress. Easy-to-read charts present information about each major content area or area of development and descriptions of what those standards might look like in classrooms. The charts also suggest activities and interactions to support a child as he or she makes the first attempts toward the standard, progresses toward it, and finally accomplishes the standard.

Age focus: 3-5. Softbound, 184 pgs.

Softbound $24.95

e-book $24.95

Developmentally Appropriate Play Stories CD-ROM

Author: Gaye Gronlund

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Key principles, video clips, and play stories illustrate the many ways to enhance children's play experiences on this CD-ROM program. Focusing on the importance of play in early childhood, it explores the levels of children's play and teachers' roles in play. based on Developmentally appropriate Play, it also includes narratives from the book's author, Gaye Gronlund, as well as reflection questions, printable materials, and resources.

CD-ROM $99.95