Chapter 1: Introduction: Young Children Learning and Early Years Teaching
David Whitebread
PART A: Basic Principles and Approaches
Chapter 2: 'Our classroom is like a little cosy house!': Organising the early years classroom to encourage self-regulated learning
David Whitebread with Rebecca Dawkins, Sue Bingham, Harriet Rhodes & Kate Hemming
Chapter 3: 'My mum would pay anything for chocolate cake!' Organising the Whole Curriculum: Enterprise Projects in the Early Years
Penny Coltman, David Whitebread & Jayne Greenwood
Chapter 4: 'When the chicks hatch a man will come and bring them yolk to eat': Assessment in the early years
Amy Arnold
Chapter 5: "This is the best day of my life! And I'm not leaving here until it's time to go home!": The Outdoor Learning Environment
Christine Parker
PART B: Play & Language
Chapter 6: 'Listen to my idea!' Communication and Language in the Early Years
Nancy Stewart
Chapter 7: 'It is only a story, isn't it?' Interactive Story-making in the Early Years Classroom
Lesley Hendy
Chapter 8: "I can write... on my own!" Writing in the Early Years
Helen Bradford
Chapter 9: 'What's that dog thinking, Mrs. Bromley?' Picture Books and Learning to Read
Helen Bromley
PART C: The Wider Curriculum
Chapter 10: 'We are passing the smile around' Personal, Social, Health and Emotional Education in the Early Years
Sue Bingham
Chapter 11: 'How do I do this better?' From Movement Development into Physical Literacy
Trish Maude
Chapter 12: "I've got a song to sing": Creating a Musical Environment for Children in their Early Years
Linda Bance
Chapter 13: 'Once there was someone who walked on the sky.' Creativity in the Early Years
Kate Cowan & Miles Berry
Chapter 14: 'How many toes has a newt?' Science in the Early Years
Penny Coltman
Chapter 15: 'How many shapey ones have you got?' : Number and Shape in the Early Years
Sue Gifford & Penny Coltman
Chapter 16: 'But what does it do?' Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in the Early Years: An Emergent Approach
John Siraj-Blatchford
Chapter 17: So what is long ago and where is far away.....? A sense of time and place
Jayne Greenwood & Holly Linklater
Chapter 18: "Why is she all yellowy Miss?" "Why have you got two mums" "You can't use the pink - you're a boy!" : Embracing diversity & difference in the Early Years
Natalie Heath
PART D: The Way Forward
Chapter 19: Whatever Next? Future Trends in Early Years Education
Mary Jane Drummond
Index