The Early Years | A reader | Sandra Smidt | Taylor & Francis eBooks, R

ABSTRACT

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|6 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

Part I How young children learn

chapter |2 pages

Introduction to Part I

chapter 2|6 pages

A developmental approach to the curriculum in the early years

chapter 3|4 pages

Welcome to our nursery centre

chapter 4|8 pages

To play or not to play? That is the question!

chapter 5|2 pages

Observing symbolic play

chapter 6|2 pages

Louise drawing

chapter 7|4 pages

Playing with magnets

chapter 8|2 pages

‘Tricks’

part |2 pages

Part II All our children

chapter |2 pages

Introduction to Part II

chapter 9|6 pages

Supporting young children

chapter 10|4 pages

Towards anti-racism

chapter 11|2 pages

Raising the status of talk in the classroom

chapter 12|2 pages

Developing an anti-racist policy

chapter 13|18 pages

‘I Know Lots Languages’

chapter 14|8 pages

Towards equality

chapter 15|2 pages

Keys to the home corner

chapter 16|2 pages

Sand for boys and girls

chapter 17|4 pages

Girls as constructors

chapter 18|4 pages

If I can’t ask for it, I can’t use it

part |2 pages

Part III Understanding children

chapter |2 pages

Introduction to Part III

chapter 19|8 pages

Observing children

chapter 20|2 pages

Child study: Kizzy

chapter 21|4 pages

The importance of observation

chapter 22|4 pages

Child study: John

chapter 23|2 pages

‘Her eyes are flashing and her ears are sore’

chapter 24|8 pages

Using schemas in the early years

chapter 25|4 pages

Alice drawing

part |2 pages

Part IV Children talking

chapter |2 pages

Introduction to Part IV

chapter 26|8 pages

Talking with and listening to young children

chapter 27|4 pages

Louisa makes a plan

chapter 28|2 pages

Cooking together

chapter 29|2 pages

‘Let’s make honey!’

chapter 30|4 pages

Making ice

chapter 31|12 pages

Storytelling to young children

chapter |2 pages

Part V Understanding the written world

part |2 pages

Introduction to Part V

chapter 32|10 pages

Talking in your head

chapter 33|2 pages

Ade plays at reading to Charlotte

chapter 34|2 pages

Making a big book

chapter 35|4 pages

Learning to read made easy

chapter 36|8 pages

Hannah and her books

chapter 37|4 pages

Early writing

chapter 38|2 pages

Extending literacy through play

chapter 39|2 pages

Heroes and baddies

chapter 40|10 pages

YDUDT—Why did you do it?

part |2 pages

Part VI Representing and explaining the world

chapter |2 pages

Introduction to Part VI

chapter 41|4 pages

Talking through the process

chapter 42|6 pages

Scaffolding Caitlin’s learning

chapter 43|12 pages

‘The workshop table—a stepping stone in the visual arts’

part |2 pages

Part VII Partnerships with parents

chapter |2 pages

Introduction to Part VII

chapter 44|8 pages

Parents’ commitment to their children’s development

chapter 45|4 pages

You and your child

chapter 46|2 pages

A last word: the search for the ‘crock of gold’