Early Childhood Curriculum, Assessment & Lesson Plans

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Curriculum & Assessment Tools

AEPS-Bricker, Diane

Ages & Stages Questionnaires- ASQ and ASQ-SE

Child Observation Record for Infants and Toddlers 2001-Preschool

Infant-Toddler COR

Creative Curriculum

DECA Program: Devereaux Early Childhood Assessment Program

Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS), revised ed Harms et all. Teachers College Press

Early Language & Literacy Classroom Observation Toolkit. Brookes Pub 2002

New Portage Guide for Early Education, Larson, Nola. 2003

The Work Sampling System, 4th Edition. Meisels 2002

For Work Sampling System ordering information please click HERE

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Curriculums and Lesson Plans

http://www.readplaylearn.com/ *An Early Childhood Favorite!

Read, Play, and Learn!® is an innovative, play- based curriculum for children 3–6 years of age (1-6 years developmental age). It can be implemented in any child care, preschool, early education, Head Start, or kindergarten program that emphasizes a developmental approach to learning.

Worksheet Library: Thousands of K-6 Printable Worksheets, 100s of Timesavers and 500 Free Worksheets. Standards also!

Everything Preschool:

This site contains over 30,000 early childhood education ideas separated into over 100 themes, 26 Alphabet Idea Sections, & Lesson Plans.

Early Childhood Education Supersite

Early Childhood Education Supersite: Classroom Activities

From Inro: "Thanks for visiting this comprehensive collection of lesson plans, teaching resources, weblinks, and current events articles devoted to Early Childhood Education."

Core Knowledge® Lesson Plans: Preschool

http://www.coreknowledge.org/CKproto2/resrcs/lessons/Prek.htm *note* Adobe Acrobat Format (.pdf)

Preschool Physical Education Lesson Plans from PE Central

http://pecentral.org/lessonideas/elementary/preschoolmenu.asp

http://www.preschoolrainbow.org/

Preschool education activities and early childhood education lesson plans that give preschool children choices. Ideas for pre-k and kindergarten teachers that enrich classroom curriculum are arranged by theme. Plus easy at home fun learning games.

http://www.123child.com/

Welcome to the Activity Idea Place! We host over 1450 activity ideas for young children. Theme- based art, math, science, games, songs, dramatic play and more. Lesson plans and curriculum ideas for preschool and toddler teachers.

http://www.abcteach.com/

Welcome to abcteach! This is the place for kids, parents, student teachers, and teachers. Free Printables: This section of abcteach offers over 5000+ free printable pages.

http://www.learningpage.com/

Learning Page is a huge collection of professionally produced instructional material for you to download and print. Lesson plans, books, worksheets and much more can be found on the site.

http://www.preschoolcoloringbook.com/

Let's get ready to color! Preschool Coloring book is dedicated to helping parents, teachers, and educator help preschoolers explore the creative world of drawing and coloring. We supply line and no line coloring pages that can easily be printed, as well as journaling ideas for your preschooler.