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Recommended Reading
Recommended Reading

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Avery, Carol
And With a Light Touch: Learning About Reading, Writing, and Teaching With First Graders

Calkins, Lucy
Raising Life-Long Learners
The Art of Teaching Writing, 2nd edition
The Art of Teaching Reading 

See other books by Lucy Mccormick Calkins

Chaille, Christine & Lory Britain
The Young Scientist: A Constructivist Approach to Early Childhood Science Education

Dowling, Linda Culp & Cecile Culp Mielenz, Ph.D.
Mentor Manager, Mentor Parent: How to Develop Responsible People and Build Successful Relationships at Work and at Home

Faber, Adele
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk

Gatto, John Taylor
A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling

Gauld, Laura, Malcolm Gault and Marc Brown
The Biggest Job We'll Ever Have: The Hyde School Program for Character-Based Education and Parenting

Gottman, John Ph.D.
Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child

Kamii, Constance
Young Children Reinvent Arithmetic

See other books and publications by Dr. Constance Kamii

Kohn, Alfie
The Schools Our Children Deserve, Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards"

Punished by Rewards

See other books and publications by Alfie Kohn

Mercogliano, Chris
In Defense of Childhood: Protecting Kids' Inner Wildness

Phillips, Dale R.
Developing Logical Thinkers: the Developmental Activities Program

Smith, Frank
Insult to Intelligence: the bureaucratic invasion of our classrooms



General Interest

Armstrong, Thomas
7 Kinds of Smart: Identifying and Developing your Multiple Intelligences

Carpenter, Thomas, & James Hiebert
Making Sense-Teaching and Learning Mathematics With Understanding

Chase, Penelle & Jane Doan
Full Circle - A New Look at Multiage Education
Choosing to Learn: Ownership and Responsibility in a Primary Multiage Classroom

DeGaetano, Gloria
Parenting Well in a Media Age

See more publications and books by Gloria DeGaetano

Devries, Rheta and Betty S. Zan
Moral Children, Moral Classroom: Creating a Constructivist Atmosphere in Early Education

Elkind, David
The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon

Faber, Adele
Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live

Gatto, John Taylor
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

Guterson, David
Family Matters, Why Homeschooling Makes Sense

Healy, Jane
Endangered Minds: Why Children Don't Think and What We Can Do About It
Failure to Connect

Hern, Matt
DeSchooling Our Lives

Holt, John
How Children Fail

Levin, Diane E.
Remote Control Childhood

 Manning, Maryann & Gary Manning & Roberta Long
Theme Immersion: Inquiry-Based Curriculum in Elementary and Middle Schools

Ostrow, Jill
A Room With a Different View

Phillips, Dale R.
Developing Logical Thinkers

Phillips, Darrell G. with Dale R. Phillips
Structures of Thinking: Concrete Operation. The companion book to Developing Logical Thinkers, by Dale Phillips

Phillips, Darrell G.
Sciencing: Toward Logical Thinking



Preschool Level Focus:

Ames, Louise Bates, Ph.D. and Frances Ilg. M.D.
Your One-Year Old
Your Two-Year Old
Your Three-Year Old
Your Four-Year Old
Your Five-Year Old

Bos, Bev.
Don't Move the Muffin Tins: A Hands-Off Guide to Art for the Young Child

Kamii, Constance, and DeVries, Rheta (1996)
Group games in early education: Implications of Piaget's theory. Washington DC: National Association for the Education of Young Children.
Physical knowledge in preschool education: Implications of Piaget's theory: (Original work published in 1978)

See other books and publications by Dr. Constance Kamii 



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