The Core Knowledge Preschool Sequence and Teacher Handbook provides, in a single bound publication, detailed guidance to implementing a knowledge-rich preschool program that addresses the individual needs of children three- to five-years-old. This comprehensive handbook provides:

• Explicitly stated learning goals and skills
• Early childhood best practices
• Cross-curricular connections
• Language of instruction and specific oral language skills
• Background knowledge and teaching ideas to help teachers meet the needs of individual children
• Examples of scaffolding strategies and assessment strategies specific to the domain
• Lists of additional resources for both children and teachers

Chapters addressing each of the following content areas and developmental domains:

• Getting Started
• Scaffolding Learning and Meeting Special Needs
• Assessment & Planning
• Movement & Coordination
• Autonomy & Social Skills
• Work Habits
• Oral Language
• Nursery Rhymes, Poems, Fingerplays, and Songs
• Storybook Reading & Storytelling
• Emergent Literacy in Reading & Writing
• Mathematical Reasoning
• Orientation in Time
• Orientation in Space
• Scientific Reasoning
• Visual Art
• Music
• Parental Communication and Involvement
• English Language Learners
• Core Knowledge for Toddlers

See a sample from the Preschool Sequence and Teacher Handbook.