Achieving Learning Goals Through Play, Second Edition

Anne Widerstom

Play is more than just fun; its a powerful teaching tool that helps young children learn. With this practical, activity-filled guide, youll have ready-to-use strategies for weaving individual learning goals into play throughout the school day.

2004

Ages: 2 - 5

$71.50

Attention Balance and Coordination The ABC of Learning Success

Sally Goddard Blythe

Suitable for professionals involved in education and child development on the role of reflexes, posture and motor skills in educational achievement and understanding the source of specific problems with behavior, this title explains why early reflexes are important, their functions in early development, and effects on learning and behavior.

2009

Ages: -

$110.00

Can't Play Won't Play

Elizabeth Atter

Learning to roller skate or ride a bike should be an enjoyable experience, but for a child with developmental co-ordination disorder (DCD, also known as dyspraxia), these activities can lead to frustration and failure. Can't Play Won't Play is full of practical information, tips and hints to enable children with DCD to access and enjoy activities that other children take for granted.

200801

Ages: -

$32.95

ChIPPA Spanish Version

2009

Ages: -

$880.00

Children's Play: The Roots of Reading

Edward Zigler, Dorothy Singer, Sandra Bishop-Josef

Extensive empirical research has documented the value of play for both cognitive and social development. Playguided by teachers, child care providers, and parents

2004

Ages: 0 - 3

$75.00

Childs Play Revisiting Play in Early Childhood Settings

Elizabeth Dau

Through a range of topical issues explored by practitioners and educators in the child care field, this resource uncovers the intricate relationship between play and learning with a particular focus on the acquisition of social skills and the development of attitudes

2004

Ages: 0 -

$58.19

Creative Play & Stories with Babies 0025372W

Sue Jennings

2008

Ages: -

$121.00

From Birth to Five Years: Children's Developmental Progress

Mary Sheridan

The book clearly sets out each stage of development in young children, explaining the variance in age at which different children acquire the same skills and abilities.

This book is also available in a twin pack with its companion book(Play in Early Childhood) for a special price.

1997

Ages: 0 - 5

$29.90

Learn To Play

Karen Stagnitti

A practical program designed to develop the Imaginative play skills of children up to six years of age with developmental delays, autistic spectrum disorders, language disorders and other disabilities.
Includes imaginitive play checklist and parent checklist.

1998

Ages: 1 - 6

$120.00

Making Toys for Infants and Toddlers

Linda Miller and Mary Jo Gibbs

Using ordinary stuff for extraordinary play

2002

Ages: 0 - 4

$48.30

Making Toys for Preschool Children

Linda Miller, Mary Gibbs

Using Ordinary Stuff for Extraordinary Play What do you get when you combine a newspaper, paper bags, tape, & markers? A Lunch Bag City, of course This series is a teachers dream Youll find more creative ways to use a tube sock, milk carton, and other inexpensive things found around the house than you ever imagined. Create unique, exciting toys and props to help children learn in appropriate ways.

2002

Ages: -

$48.30

Narrative Approaches in Play with Children

Ann Cattanach

Narrative play is a way of communicating with children using imaginative stories and narratives to share and make sense of life events. This book describes using narrative play therapeutically with children who have lived in multiple families, children who have problems with social understanding and children who have learning difficulties.

2007

Ages: -

$48.35

Planning Children's Play and Learning in the Foundation Stage

Jane Drake

2002

Ages: 3 - 5

$60.95

Play Therapy Theory and Practice Comparing Theories and Techniques 2nd Ed Due May 09

Kevin J Oconnor Lisa D Braverman

432 PP This book is edited by one of the foremost authorities on play therapy. This new edition of this best seller provides an up-to-date guide to the 10 major approaches to play therapy. The new edition covers bi-polar and ADHD diagnosis and the use of psychotropic medications.
The therapist looking to sharpen skills and students seeking initial training will benefit greatly from this book.

2009

Ages: -

$97.95

Play and Learning in the Early Years an inclusive approach

Angela Glenn, Jacquie Cousins, Alicia Helps

Focusing on the crucial area of play, this book provides easy-to-understand information and advice for all Early Years practitioners. Play and Learning in the Early Years has been put together from course notes and materials used by the authors in their work with pre-school practitioners. The hands on strategies help to include children with SEN in play. It contains: Photocopiable record sheets Explanations on how different types of SEN can affect a child's play Practical, topical information on how to include children with SEN in day-to-day activities Short, practical case studies that illustrate how strategies work in practice Written for practitioners in all pre-school settings, as well as parents.

2006

Ages: 0 - 6

$58.65

Play as Therapy and Therapeutic Interventions

Karen Stagnitti and Rodney Cooper

Play as therapy provides background theory and practical applications of original research on play assessment and interventions used in therapy . The book offers a solid foundation for identifying and assessing play dysfunction, understanding play in different cultural contexts and considerations when intervening with play. The practical approach is underpinned by theory, research and case vignettes to explain how to utilise play as therapy with challenging children

2009

Ages: -

$43.00

Spotlight on young children and Play

Derry Koralek

2004

Ages: 0 - 8

$33.35

Teaching Play to Children with Autism Practical Interventions Using Identiplay Incl CDROM

Nicky Phillips, Liz Beavan

A CD-ROM is included containing the photographs, video clips and scripts to allow printing of all the materials. For children on the autistic spectrum and those with a specific communication disorder the social and emotional impairment demonstrates itself in, amongst other ways, a difficulty in learning to play and a resulting isolation from peers and their imaginative and physical world. The authors explain the function and development of play for children who develop the skills normally. Their analysis has provided a sound theoretical basis for the practical teaching programme which promotes the development and opportunity to practise the elements social skills and social understanding, imagination, rehearsal, flexibility and change, exploration.

Ages: -

$69.00

What Every Parent Needs to Know

Margot Sunderland

The Incredible Effects of Love, Nurture and Play on Your Child's Development.
Re-writes the rule book on raising a child. Based on over 700 scientific studies into children's development, the author and child psychotherapist explains how to develop your child's potential to the full. He reveals how touch, laughter and play build emotional wellbeing for life, and also strategies for dealing with temper tantrums and tears.

2006

Ages: -

$39.95