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Our Resource Library contains materials and assistance for early childhood educators and those they serve. Explore our selection of podcasts, tip sheets, websites, documents, and self-study courses.
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Frère Jacques, are you sleeping? | Virtually all new parents quickly discover that a lullaby will in fact help an infant unwind, but they might be surprised to learn that babies aren’t fussy about the language. Researchers at Harvard’s Music Lab have determined that American infants relaxed when played lullabies that were unfamiliar and in a foreign language. | Website |
Games for Babies | "It’s never too early to start playing games to help your child reach their sensory, communication, feeding, and motor milestones." Here are some fun suggestions from Pathways on games for babies. They are organized by age group! | Website |
Gender Identity and Expression in the Early Childhood Classroom: Influences on Development Within Sociocultural Contexts | Author/teacher Jamie Solomon’s article shares highlights from projects that addressed three research questions: 1) How can I offer a curriculum that provides children with more opportunities for acting outside of traditional gender roles? 2) How can I encourage and support children who wish to behave outside of traditional gender roles? And 3) How can I foster increasingly flexible thinking about gender among 4- and 5-year-old children? | Website |
Gender Identity Development in Children | There are many ways parents can promote healthy gender development in children. It helps to understand gender identity and how it forms. Here is an article from the American Academy of Pediatrics Healthy Children website. | Website |
Gender-Expansive and Transgender Children: Books for Students | Gender-Expansive and Transgender Children: Books for Students | Document |
Get Ready to Read | Get Ready to Read! (GRTR!) is a national initiative to build the early literacy skills of preschool-age children. The initiative provides an easy-to-administer, research-based screening tool to early childhood educators, child care providers, and parents in order to help them prepare all children to learn to read and write. GRTR!'s program vision is that all preschool children will have the skills they need to learn to read when they enter school. This Web site is a part of NCLD's initiative to provide parents, educators, health-care professional and advocated with information to help build early literacy skills by integrating emergent literacy screening and learning activities into routine early childhood education, child-care and parenting practices. A newsletter is available to subscribe to with tips on early literacy, information, and resources for parents and teachers. | Website |
Getting In Tune Creating Nurturing Relationships With Infants And Toddlers | This video from the Far West Laboratory Center for Child and Family Studies highlights the importance of getting in tune with infants and toddlers. | |
Great Books to Read to Infants and Toddlers | A list of "Great Reads" for infants and toddlers from NAEYC. | Website |
Great Read Alouds for Kids: Babies to Grade 3 | A collection of resources related to reading aloud to children, including lists of suggested books for each age. In addition you'll find videos and resources on related topics like sharing wordless picture books, reading aloud to build comprehension, getting the most out of nonfiction reading time, and using mental imagery while reading. | Website |
Groundbreaking Book Explains the Beginning of Math Concepts for Infants and Toddlers | The Erikson Institute "sat down with Mary Hynes-Berry, one of the authors of the new book, Precursor Math Concepts: The Wonder of Mathematical Worlds with Infants and Toddlers. This book extends professional knowledge for mathematics teaching to teachers who work with the very youngest learners. We know that children’s brains develop connections faster in the first five years than at any other time in their lives. This book helps us think about how to support children ages 0-3 to explore the mathematics in their world right from the start." | Website |
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