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An Outcome and Intervention Planning Instrument for Use with Families at Risk
For use with at-risk families of children from birth to 3 years of age, this tool, along with a CD-ROM, provides the critical data home visiting programs need. Generating a portrait of the behaviors and skills of parents and children, it helps establish baseline client profiles, monitor outcomes and others, to show that interventions are working.
Directed Reading Opportunities for Struggling Students
Created by teachers for teachers, this activity-based curriculum is based on Project Early ID, a successful pilot program that's been improving reading outcomes in Baltimore public schools since 2005. Expertly organizing their lessons into one hands-on, step-by-step guide, the authors give teachers, SLPs, and paraprofessionals eleven complete ......
How can early childhood professionals make informed decisions while selecting assessment materials that meet recommended practices? Use the new edition of this essential reference, the only book with professional ratings and reviews of 80 authentic, widely used assessment tools for children aged birth to 8.
A Comprehensive Guide to Evidence-Based Instruction
This practical text offers guidance on how to provide explicit, systematic instruction on language and literacy to English learners. Fill that gap in teacher education with this practical and comprehensive textbook, an evidence-based guide to providing English learners in Pre-K-Grade 6.
Stress-busting Tips for Early Childhood Classrooms
Describes the way stress manifests in children's lives and presents strategies to teachers and childcare providers for alleviating those stresses. This book helps educators, childcare providers, and parents understand sources of child stresses and solutions to ameliorate those stresses.
This work shows that professionals can learn a great deal about young children's emerging language and communication skills by consulting the ones who know the children best - their parents or caregivers.
Useful for children of ages 16-30 months. The first part of this work prompts parents to document the child's understanding of vocabulary items separated into semantic categories. The second part analyzes the early phases of grammar, including the child's understanding of word forms and the complexity of the child's multi-word utterances.
Useful for children of ages 8-16 months. The first part of this book prompts parents to document the child's understanding of vocabulary items separated into semantic categories. The second part asks parents to record the communicative and symbolic gestures the child has tried or completed.
With the Inventarios, the Spanish adaptation of the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs), professionals can tap into parents' invaluable day-to-day knowledge about their children's language and communication skills--and respond to legislation that requires parental input in child evaluations. Top language researchers developed ......
