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Early Childhood Resources
Books Journals and Indexes Early Childhood Resources
Children's Literature
Children's books about disabilities
Web Sites for Children
APA Style Guides
NetLibrary (A collection of electronic books)
Netlibrary - ebook citation guidance (APA & MLA)
- International Children's Digital Library: a Library for the Worlds Children
- An online collection of children's books in various languages.
- WorldCat (search libraries worldwide)
- Tennessee Electronic Library
- The Tennessee Electronic Library provides access to journal articles and other reference material. Two databases are particularly useful. INFOTRAC Educators 200, Educator's Reference Complete and Professional Collection each have a subject heading for Early Childhood Education and contain full text articles from journals such as Exceptional Children (1989 to present), Childhood Education (1996 to present), Instructor (1992 to present) and Teaching Children Mathematics (Sep 1994 to present). Health Reference Center Academic provides articles and pamphlets which may be helpful for both professional and parental information concerning childhood health and nutrition.
- Education Full Text
- H.W. Wilson's Education Full Text database provides access to full text articles from several journals that cover early childhood teaching including Child Study Journal (1996 to present), Instructor (1999 to present), Scholastic Early Childhood Today (1999 to present) and Topics in Early Childhood Education(1996 to present). It also provides indexing (citations and abstracts) for several other journals that cover early childhood.
- Child Care & Early Education Research Connections
- This site provides an index to early childhood research from peer reviewed journals and documents from private and government agencies. Many of the documents are available in full text. Most of the articles from the peer reviewed journals must be located in other databases such as those listed above.
- Early Childhood Research & Practice (ECRP)
- ECRP is an online journal which has a spring and fall issue each year. No subscription is necessary. Issues from previous years are available at this site.
- Scholastic Inc.
- These links provide subscription information for Scholastic's journals, Early Childhood Today and Instructor. Scholastic's site also provides a web page for Teachers which includes links to useful resources.
- Teaching K-8
- The Teaching K-8 website provides access to selected articles from the current issue. Subscribers may access a "Green Pages" database of "short, skill-building activities for use with students in grades pre-K to 8" from previous issues.
- Teaching Tolerance
- The Teaching Tolerance web site is a portion of the web site of the Southern Poverty Law Center. It provides links to the Teaching Tolerance Magazine and sections about classroom resources, classroom activities and teaching tools. The Teaching Tolerance Magazine section includes an archive of previous issues.
- Young Children
- Young Children is the National Association for the Education of Young Children's peer reviewed journal. It has a searchable index which provides citations for articles published since 1985.
Tennessee Early Learning Developmental Standards
- Child and Family Web Guide - Tufts University
- This is an excellent site which has links to other web sites reviewed by the experts at Tufts University. It has links to topics by age ( infants 0-2 & young children 2-6) and also an index search where you can search specific topics.
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
Tennessee Association for the Education of Young Children (TAEYC)
Association for Childhood Education International Association Montessori Internationale
Center for the Child Care Workforce
Choices for Children Council for Exceptional Children: Division for Early Childhood
- Cultural and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS): Early Childhood Research Institute
- This site at the University of Illinois provides links to their publications and an extensive list of early childhood resources.
- Early Childhood.com
- The Shared Ideas section provides a place to share ideas with other child care professionals.
- Early Childhood Online
- Check the links to early childhood education articles and resources in the tables/boxes at the bottom of this page.
National Center for Early Development and Learning National Child Care Information Center
- National Network for Childcare
- The National Network for Childcare has an outstanding list of Articles and Resources.
- Technical Assistance Center on Social Emotional Intervention
- (www.challengingbehavior.org)
- Collage newsletter: Articles for Early Childhood Educators from Community Playthings
- This newsletter is sponsored by Community Playthings which sells furniture for classrooms. It has good articles about designing classroom environments.
- Lakeshore - Classroom Designer
- Click on the Classroom Designer link in the Free Resources menu.
American Library Association's Children's Notables List
Barahona Center for the study of Spanish books for children and adolescents
- Choosing Children's Books (National Network for Childcare)
- In addition to the two web sites listed above, this page provides links to other lists of recommended books and sites which provide guidance about selecting children's books.
International Reading Association Choices Book Lists
- New York Public Library
- Recommended Reading - 100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know
Children's Books about Disabilities
- Children's Books about Disabilities - TeacherVision.com
- These lists of books about disabilities are divided into several age/reading level categories.
- Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award
- The list of "All books considered for the Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award" is very useful also.
- Special Needs Children's Books
- The first books listed in each section provide advice for parents of children with disabilities. Later on each list are some books for the children or their siblings.
- Amazon's Best Children's Books on Disability list
- This short list of books was created by an Amazon.com user.
- Great Web Sites for Kids
- This site is sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC).
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Citation Styles Online Provided by Bedford St. Martins
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