Child-initiated Learning: Hundreds of Ideas for Independent Learning in the Early Years

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A&C Black, Oct 15, 2009 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 56 pages
Independent learning and child-initiated activities are at the heart of early learning. With these principles in mind, practitioners are working hard to support independence and a 'can do' attitude and this book aims to support that work. The wealth of ideas will help you to develop an environment where independent learning is celebrated and where children take responsibility for planning and organising their own activities. Hundreds of ways you can support independent learning are outlined, including an ICT strand running throughout to ensure an up-to-date approach to the range of experiences you are offering. Case studies in each chapter highlight how to implement good practice in your setting.
 

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Contents

Contents
2
Creative Development
10
Messy Activities
16
Sound and Movement
22
Outdoor Play
28
Roleplay
34
Stories
40
Writing
46
Systems Structures and Organisation
52

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Adina adults basket boxes Brendon Children need choose Cinderella colour Communication and Literacy construction creative area Creative Development dance dinosaurs display dough Early Learning Goals encourage children Encourage the children equipment Explanation/discussion explore fabric feel flowers Foundation Stage garden centre give glue help children ICT ideas ideas and resources imaginative and role-play imagine and recreate inside instruments Involve the children Jessie labels language to imagine Lego letters Links with Early listening malleable materials messy activities mobile phone models movement music area musical instruments Nazia numbers objects offer organised outdoor play paint parents playground chalk practitioners puppets Quality Checklist Ask range of materials recreate roles role-play areas roles and experiences sand tray selecting appropriate resources sensory garden setting Shahida sound space starters stories storytelling talk tape things toys Velcro walkie talkies watching wide range writing table

About the author (2009)

Sally Featherston has a wealth of experience as a teacher, head teacher and a local authority advisor and inspector. In recent years, alongside her activities in publishing, Sally has continued to build a reputation as a trainer and consultant in the Primary and Early Years field.
Ros Bayley is an enthusiastic advocate of personal, social and emotional education, believing that if we get this right, children's intellectual will follow much more easily. Following extensive experience as an Early Years teacher, Ros now works as a consultant, trainer and storyteller.

Bibliographic information

TitleChild-initiated Learning: Hundreds of Ideas for Independent Learning in the Early Years
Early Years Library
AuthorsRos Bayley, Sally Featherstone
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherA&C Black, 2009
ISBN1408125226, 9781408125229
Length56 pages
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Juvenile Nonfiction / Concepts / General
Juvenile Nonfiction / Study Aids / General
  
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