Resource/Activity Books

The Early Learning Language Library includes 160 photographic cards that will help build vocabulary and expressive language skills. This invaluable teaching tool not only reinforces basic principles for young learners, but also improves communication skills. Includes photographs of everyday objects with guided questions on the back of every card, as well as a resource guide with word lists and activity ideas in English and Spanish. Key Education products are intended to engage and educate young and special learners, as well as assist teachers in building a strong and developmentally appropriate curriculum for these children. The product line—comprised of teacher/parent resource books, photographic learning cards, and other activity- and game-oriented materials—is designed to assist in “Unlocking the Potential in Every Child.”

The Early Learning Language Library includes 160 photographic cards with 11 different categories:

• Actions: At School
• Actions: Taking Care of Myself
• Actions: What Are They Doing?
• Colors
• Emotions
• Farm Animals
• Food
• Wild and Water Animals
• Forest Animals
• Pets
• Transportation

Features:

• Resource Guide

Help children with ADHD in kindergarten through grade 6 be their best using Empower ADHD Kids!

This 64-page book provides step-by-step plans that help teachers and parents teach practical strategies for mastering learning and social competencies to children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. The activities provide a strong working knowledge of the characteristics of ADHD and includes:

• goal-setting techniques
• strategies to help children focus
• problem-solving strategies
• ideas to help children with ADHD realize their strengths

Key Education products are intended to engage and educate young and special learners, as well as assist teachers in building a strong and developmentally appropriate curriculum for these children.

Help students in pre-kindergarten–grade 5 work out their wiggles using "Pay Attention, Please!"

This 64-page book helps students with ADHD and students who are otherwise wiggly and overly busy learn how to pay better attention and focus for longer periods of time.

It includes games and activities that:

• strengthen listening, concentration, visual, and auditory memory skills
• assist students in learning relaxation techniques
• provide students healthy ways to burn excess energy
• help students discover ways to control over stimulation and impulsiveness

Key Education products are intended to engage and educate young and special learners, as well as assist teachers in building a strong and developmentally appropriate curriculum for these children. The product line—comprised of teacher/parent resource books, photographic learning cards, and other activity- and game-oriented materials—is designed to assist in “Unlocking the Potential in Every Child.”

Help children with autism or Asperger's learn how to understand and handle the nuances of social interactions and improve oral language skills.

Use each photo card and its accompanying social/communication skills story to discuss specific social situations and possible actions or reactions by those involved. Includes an index of the topics on the back of the box for easy reference.

Key Education products are intended to engage and educate young and special learners, as well as assist teachers in building a strong and developmentally appropriate curriculum for these children. The product line—comprised of teacher/parent resource books, photographic learning cards, and other activity- and game-oriented materials—is designed to assist in Unlocking the Potential in Every Child.

Features:

• Resource Guide

Resource books often provide tips and tricks for managing challenging behaviors, but what happens when those tactics don't work? Most teachers give up. Push Past It! brings a raw, real, and at times funny approach to handling challenging behaviors and understanding why most behavior-management strategies don't work. Author Angela Searcy shares real-world examples, proven solutions, and new approaches to overcoming classroom disruptions using her PUSH PAST IT approach. Beyond behavioral-management strategies, Push Past It! will teach you how to:

• See children's behavior as communication
• Understand what is (and is not) developmentally appropriate behavior
• Identify when to seek support
• Communicate and listen more effectively
• Help children overcome their own challenging behaviors
• Take care of yourself too!

What does a harmed child look like? It's the little girl on the playground who has mysterious bruises on her legs. It's the three-month-old baby boy who arches his back when you try to hold him. It's the four-year-old who bites and hits when asked to clean up. These are the faces of traumatized children.

As an early childhood professional, you play a key role in the early identification of maltreatment and unhealthy patterns of development. You are also the gateway to healing. In Reaching and Teaching Children Exposed to Trauma, you will find the tools and strategies to connect with harmed children and start them on the path to healing.

Dr. Sorrels offers practical strategies that caregivers need to help these littlest victims.

• Connecting with a harmed child using games, music, gentle touch, and play
• Meeting children's sensory needs throughout the day: morning arrival, group time, meal times, outdoor play, and naptime
• Creating a sensory-rich classroom environment with easy, simple ideas
• Teaching a traumatized child self-regulation skills and impulse control using visual cues, rehearsal and role play, games, and scripted stories
• Coaching and supporting social skills: turn taking, sharing, joining in play, empathy, and conflict resolution
• Communicating unconditional love and acceptance to children from hard places

Do you have a child in your early childhood classroom who:

• Climbs on top of furniture and jumps off?
• Covers his ears when children are singing?
• Refuses to touch clay, paint, or sand?
• Often falls down and skins her knees?
• Refuses to play on outdoor playground equipment?

If so, it is possible the child is having sensory processing problems. How can you help children with these problems so they can enjoy learning and grow in positive ways? Sensory Integration helps you identify children who have difficulties with sensory processing, and it offers simple, easy-to-use solutions to support the sensory needs of young children in the preschool classroom. Easy-to-implement solutions include adaptations and activities for children with different types of Sensory Processing Disorder. This book has a bonus chapter with instructions for creating low-cost items to help children with sensory issues.

Chapters cover concepts such as:

• Explaining Sensory Integration and Sensory Processing Disorder
• Defining sensory avoiders, seekers, and under-responders
• Designing the environment to support the sensory development of all children
• Helping preschoolers with sensory processing problems
• Providing practical solutions to meet the needs of individual children during daily routines
• Building and creating low-cost items such as a tire swing, sand pillow, and incline board to give children opportunities to get the sensory input they need

No previous experience with American Sign Language is required! Help all students—hearing, hearing-impaired, deaf, special needs, gifted, and English language learners—to improve language and literacy skills with Sign Language Fun in the Early Childhood Classroom.

This 64-page resource book helps students improve verbal communication, visual discrimination, spatial memory, and early reading skills. The multi-sensory approach helps all students improve language and literacy skills.

This book includes:

• teaching suggestions
• games
• activities
• songs
• rhymes
• literature recommendations
• reproducible sign language cards

Supports NCTE and NAEYC standards.

Key Education products are intended to engage and educate young and special learners, as well as assist teachers in building a strong and developmentally appropriate curriculum for these children. The product line—comprised of teacher/parent resource books, photographic learning cards, and other activity- and game-oriented materials—is designed to assist in “Unlocking the Potential in Every Child.”