The most pressing challenge in early childhood education today is to find a way to meet the standards within a developmentally appropriate approach. In this book, two active early childhood educators provide teachers with resources to bring content alive in the daily, action-based pre-K and Kindergarten classrooms, and ways to document it. The book includes lists of key content ideas - coordinated with learning standards in science, mathematics, social studies, and in the communication arts - to guide teacher observations of, and interactions with, young children. Chapters focus on ways to...