The Parent - Teacher resource collection at Monroe County Public Library includes a variety of materials adults can use to support the education of children in their care. Library staff can help identify materials that meet the needs of children at various stages of growth and development, and help children explore the world around them.
Educational Materials to Support Learning at Home
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This book includes dozens of therapeutic games for kids with autism and sensory spectrum disorders.—Baker & Taylor
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Incorporate creative, educational, and fun fingerplays into your storytime with this time-saving, uniquely extensive one-stop resource. Organized by theme from apples to zoo , experienced children's librarian Barbara Scott s one-thousand, ready-to-go fingerplays and action rhymes provide busy librarians and teachers with the up-to-date, cost-effective material needed to improve storytime without the extra planning time.—Baker & Taylor
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Become a skilled anti-bias teacher with this eagerly awaited successor to the influential Anti-Bias Curriculum!—Google Books
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Presents 24 creative projects inspired by works from famous artists who include James McNeill Whistler, Henri Matisse, Albrecht Dürer, and many others. An introduction to parents and teachers advises on how to use these books with children, and emphasizes that no prior knowledge of the subject is needed.—Baker & Taylor
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This book defines what science, technology, engineering, and math education looks like for this [infants and toddlers], and why it is so vital for children to develop STEM knowledge.—Baker & Taylor
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Build classroom community AND give each child a chance to shine with these engaging, cross-curricular circle time activities. You’ll make the most of your morning meeting when you use these interactive, multi-sensory ideas and activities that teach kids to listen and share. Includes skill-building activities in language and literacy, music and movement, and more. For use with Grades PreK-1.—Amazon.com
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Presents a guide that includes 500 diverse contemporary fiction and memoir recommendations for preteens and teens, with the goal of inspiring greater empathy for themselves, their peers, and the world around them.--Baker & Taylor
[This book] shows you exactly how to use children's books to engage preschool-age children through movement. With this... resource, your next storytime will have children standing up tall, balancing as they pretend to walk across a bridge, and flying around the room like an airplane—Neal Schuman
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Stimulate your baby's brainpower with this collection of 140 fun-filled games devised to increase brain development during the critical period from 0-3 years. Grouped by age and accompanied by information on related brain research, the games have been developed meet the needs of each stage of your child's young life—Amazon.com
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Breaking through! provides parents with tips for keeping their daughters engaged in the fields of math, science, and technology as well as advocating for STEM-enriched classrooms and combating gender imbalance.—Baker & Taylor
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This book presents a comprehensive package of literacy-based public library programming ideas designed for children in kindergarten through the early tweens. Chock full of strategies and best practices for promoting literacy and reading skill development, it also features numerous planning templates and other materials ready to print and adapt as needed.—ALA Editions
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Each chapter defines a separate developmental period and contains approximately 10 fingerplays or action rhymes appropriate for that age. Included among the 100 examples are those especially suited for E.S.L. (English as a Second Language) students and for special needs children.—Google Books
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In this book, parents find hundreds of exercises that keep youngsters smiling even as they advance their mental and physical growth.—Google Books
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Provides lesson plans and activities that teach preschoolers about the five senses.—Totline Publications
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Pregnancy, childbirth, and post-partum offer women some of the most emotionally enriching and satisfying experiences of their life. But many women entering motherhood are shocked at their lack of preparation or awareness about what that actually means for their bodies, minds, spirits, and relationships. Kimberly Johnson, a doula, post-partum recovery expert, and yoga instructor has created a wise and supportive illustrated guide that offers women a roadmap to this very important transition that can last a few months--or even a few years.—Baker & Taylor
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Over 100 games and activities designed for use from birth to one year. Games Babies Play is a collection of traditional and contemporary games that are organized into four three-month sections to keep pace with baby’s changing abilities—Baker & Taylor
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The monthly child development newsletter timed to a child's age.--from the cover
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Drawing on their combined 47 years of experience as Title 1 resource teachers, the authors furnish educators with a detailed road map for helping struggling readers become proficient. Presenting a complete, step-by-step program for the early grades, they deliver systematic and sequential techniques for teaching decoding skills including phonics, vocabulary, and comprehension skills.—Good Year Books
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Practical organization, teaching and relationship advice for busy homeschooling moms.—B & H Pub Group
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Provides suggestions and instructions for outdoor games and activities for preteens, including canoeing, biking, and camping.—Baker & Taylor
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This resource for [those] who work with children and teens not only surveys the best in LGBTQAI+ lit but, just as importantly, offers guidance on how to share it in ways that encourage understanding and acceptance among parents, school administrators, and the wider community.—Baker & Taylor
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Presents more than 250 songs, rhymes, and chants designed to help teachers provide opportunities for children to develop reading readiness and literacy.—Baker & Taylor
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48 engaging activities teach children that words are made up of sounds and give them practice with rhyme, alliteration, beginning, middle, and final sounds, oral blending, and more. —Scholastic
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Packed with inspiring ideas, endless self-discovery, and playful learning, rainy days have never been so much fun! Author Nancy Castaldo encourages kids to explore their creativity, curiosity, and imaginations through exciting indoor play.—Google Books
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In this text programming ideas abound for librarians [and teachers] who have bilingual patrons [and students] and wish to present reading programs for children for whom Spanish is the spoken language at home. The bilingual programs are for children of all ages: babies to primary school children.—American Library Association
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Recounts the experiences of twenty-one families who homeschooled their children, exploring the various teaching strategies that were used and discussing why some worked and others didn't.—Baker & Taylor
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A Reason to Read is the culminating work of the ArtsLiteracy Project, an ambitious and wide-ranging collaborative that aims to promote literacy through rich and sustained instruction in the arts.—Harvard Education Press
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Presents engineering projects and activities, including a catapult, a solar oven, and a bicycle.—Baker & Taylor
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An amazing collection of art activities, some familiar, many new, all sure to guarantee complete satisfaction both to teacher and child. Each experience can be set up in an independent art center and enjoyed and explored without adult models to copy. The end result is bounded only by the imagination of the child.—Baker & Taylor
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Projects designed to encourage children to question like scientist, design like a technologist, build like an engineer, create like an artist, deduce like a mathematician, and play like a kid.--Publisher
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Young children love to move--and that's a great thing! Because in addition to supporting early learning, storytime can provide young children with opportunities to explore physical movement. The centuries-old contemplative movement practice known as yoga is more than just a passing trend; it can offer physical, emotional, and mental benefits to practitioners of all ages, including young children.—ALA Editions
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The gift of signing helps children communicate well before they have the verbal ability to do so. Whether you have a young child who hasn't started talking yet, or a child with special needs, signing can open the door to better understanding and connection.In this revised and updated edition of the original Teach Your Baby to Sign—Baker & Taylor
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Build a strong reading foundation with these 15 lessons that use engaging picture books to teach essential skills. Help students identify phonemes in Some Smug Slug and model phrasing and intonation with The Wind Blew-kids will love revisiting read-alouds to explore the sounds, rhythm, and meaning of language. Includes tips for differentiating the lessons, book lists, and extension activities.—Scholastic
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Presents more than 250 songs, rhymes, and chants designed to help teachers provide opportunities for children to develop reading readiness and literacy.—Baker & Taylor
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Lists top suggested educational activities for children ages five to twelve that provide for a range of subjects from math and science to art and history, offering advice on how to customize activities for homeschooled children for improved creativity and thinking skills. Original.--Baker & Taylor
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Presents a method for teaching reading combining elements of memorization, phonics, and whole language, which can be used to teach children and adults. Emphasis is on basics of memorizing a sight word vocabulary, phonics rules, and comprehension skills. "Silly Stories" illustrate phonics rules. Includes step-by-step directions for facilitating teaching individuals or groups. The author taught elementary children for 33 years, and has taught workshops for educators.—Book News
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This updated edition of an international classic and best-seller first published in 1977 includes the latest research and thinking on child development and learning, and reflects the realities of today's changing lifestyle and family structures.—Baker & Taylor