LibGuides and Databases: Early Care and Education: EBook Central™ ProQuest

Using Ebook Central™ ProQuest

Welcome to Ebook Central™ ProQuest. When it is not possible to be in the Library using our wonderful print collection of Early Care and Education activity books, you may access books in this database.

In the box below select a book title that you are interested in reading, Next, click on the link, "Read Online," Next, use the feature titled, 'Search within." Enter the keyword, "activities." The next step is to search through the content and make selections to accommodate your assignment needs.

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Ebook Central™ (ProQuest™)
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EBook Central™ ProQuest - Topics for Early Care

Books in Motion : Connecting Preschoolers with Books Through Art, Games, Movement, Music, Playacting, and Props
Librarians and educators can shake up storytimes, help children stay healthy, and encourage a lifelong love of reading.
Developing Literacy in Preschool
This engaging book gives teachers and other professionals fresh ideas, inspiration, and practical tools for integrating age-appropriate literacy instruction into the preschool curriculum.
Every Nursery Needs a Garden : A Step-By-step Guide to Creating and Using a Garden with Young Children
Written for all early years practitioners, this book is the definitive guide for those looking to further enhance their outdoor environment and fulfill the potential learning opportunities that a garden can provide.
Fitness and Nutrition
Help children learn how to take care of their bodies as they build a foundation for healthy, active lives with this Fitness and Nutrition curriculum.
The Five Minute Parent : Fun & Fast Activities for You and Your Little Ones
The Five Minute Parent offers fun and fast ways to create small treasures and lasting memories with children.
Motivate to Communicate! : 300 Games and Activities for Your Child with Autism
This practical resource is brimming with exciting ideas and guidance for motivating children with autism and other communication difficulties.
Music with the Under-Fours
This book looks closely at early musical development and how this translates into ways of supporting the musical activity of babies, toddlers and young children.
Planning for Learning through Making Music
This book takes you through six weeks of activities on the theme of making music.
Reading and Writing in Preschool : Teaching the Essentials
This book describes effective, engaging ways to build young children's print concepts and alphabetic knowledge, which are crucial for both reading and writing development.
Stepping Out : Using Games and Activities to Help Your Child with Special Needs
Stepping Out provides parents and carers with practical advice, and fun games and activities to improve a child's skills in the six areas of development: cognitive; physical; sensory; language; social and emotional.
Stepping Stones to Creativity : The Ultimate Guide to Exploring Children in the Early Years' Creativity Through Dance, Drama, Storytelling and Song
This guide contains four books-worth of creative activities for the early years in one bumper-value guide.
Weather : Activities for 3-5 Year Olds
Enjoyable activities to help develop children's essential skills.
Read Online Download Book Add to Bookshelf Share Link to Book Cite Book Fun with Action Rhymes and Poems : Fun With Action Rhymes And Poems
The rhymes and poems are linked and cross-referenced to popular themes. The rhymes will foster a love of rhythm and rhyme, create a sense of beat and rhythm and lay the foundations for understanding patterns in language, music and mathematics.