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  


Books 

Voyager Catalog

NetLibrary  (A collection of electronic books) 

       Netlibrary - ebook citation guidance  (APA & MLA)


Journals and Indexes

        Tennessee Electronic Library
            The Tennessee Electronic Library provides access to journal articles and other reference material. Two databases are particularly useful.  Professional Collection has a subject heading for Early Childhood Education and contains full text articles from 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. 

Early Childhood Resources

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)

          Chattnooga Area AEYC

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. 
 
Early Childhood and Parenting Collaborative
The ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education has been closed.  Public domain materials from this clearinghouse will be available at this site maintained by the Univerisity of Illinois.

Head Start 

National Association for Multicultural Education 

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.
 
Collage newsletter: Articles for Early Childhood Educators from Community Playthings
This newsletter is sponsored by Community Playthings which sells furniture for classrooms.  It has a good article about designing classroom environments.
 
Lakeshore - Classroom Designer
Click on the Classroom Designer button on the left of Lakeshore Furniture's web page.

Children's Literature

American Library Association's Notable Books List

Book Lists for Children's Literature  
This set of book lists is made available on the web site of the National Child Care Information Center, of the Administration for Children and Families which is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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. 

The Children's Literature Web Guide (Calgary)


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.
 
ResourceLists: Children's Literature & Disability - NICHCY
These lists are from the National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY). The list is a little dated as it was created in June 2001.
 
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.

Web sites for Children

Great Web Sites for Kids
This site is sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC).

APA Style Guides

Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)  

Citation Styles Online   Provided by Bedford St. Martins


 

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