Pre School Planning Made Easy - A Comprehensive Curriculum

A Guide for Teaching Students of All Needs

by T. Merrick, D. Freeman & Marcia Brown


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Softcover
£15.75
Softcover
£15.75

Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 17/02/2003

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 8.25x11
Page Count : 140
ISBN : 9781403370754

About the Book

Preschool teachers today are asked to teach children with a wide range of skills and very diverse backgrounds. It becomes increasingly more difficult to meet the needs of all of the students and to plan new and exciting activities and lessons five days a week.

To meet this need, we have developed a book of 29 thematic units for preschool teachers which addresses a variety of special needs of children and the typically developing peer. Each unit provides basic vocabulary in English and Spanish. The units are filled with activities which are developmentally appropriate and encourage exploratory learning. Themes are developed across the curriculum: language, pre-academic, motor, literature, music, and cooking. Suggestions for special activities are included as well as home activities. Also included are suggestions for adapting activities for special needs students. Appendices with all the recipes, song lyrics, and project directions are provided. The uniqueness of this book is the TOTAL organization it involves. It allows for easy assembling of all materials, books, and songs so that the teacher can use her time constructively with students, parents, and aides instead of untold hours gathering ideas and materials for her classroom activities.


About the Author

All three authors are speech and language pathologists with extensive backgrounds working with children in a preschool setting. They each have approximately 20 years of experience in the field of speech and language in a variety of settings. Each author has spent at least 10 years teaching in preschool classrooms which integrated regular education students and special needs students. Their classrooms successfully met the needs of the typically developing child as well as those identified as communicatively handicapped, autistic, ADHD, Down’s Syndrome, physically and/or visually challenged, etc. They have tried all the activities in this book and they know that they work! They continue to actively work with students in private practice and in the public schools.