Course Guides:
Care and Development of Young Children

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• Printable Guides & Handouts
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• Research Guides: includes citation help

PRINTABLE GUIDES & HANDOUTS:

• Course Guide Handout-Care & Development of Young Children (PDF)

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SUGGESTED DATABASES:

• Academic Search Complete - Provides full-text articles from more than 5,500 multi-disciplinary, scholarly journals and publications.
• ERIC - Provides citations, abstracts, and some full-text records from over 1,000 education-related journals collected by the Educational Resource Information Center.
• Oxford Reference Online - Provides full-text access to many subject dictionaries and encyclopedias, maps, timelines, and more. Uses a unique login; see RPCC Library Services under RPCC Support in Moodle, or stop by the Library for more information.
• Primary Search - Provides full-text articles from more than 70 popular magazines for elementary school research. Includes a database of reading level indicators.
• Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection - Provides full-text coverage of over 550 journals and publications pertaining to behavioral science fields.

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SELECTED E-BOOKS:

eBook Collection from EBSCOhost is our largest provider of ebooks (electronic copies of printed books PDF format), available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. eBook Collection has an easy-to-use search interface. You will be prompted to login with your 12-digit Library User ID to access these e-books from off-campus. Please see our Tutorials on eBook Collection from EBSCOhost for more information.

• Across Cultures: A Guide to Multicultural Literature for Children, Children's and Young Adult Literature Reference Series, 2007, by Kathy East & Rebecca L. Thomas.
• Awakening Children's Minds: How Parents and Teachers Can Make a Difference, 2004, by Laura E. Berk.
• Early Childhood Development and Its Variations, 2001, by Kristine Slentz & Suzanne Krogh.
• Educating and Caring for Very Young Children: The Infant/Toddler Curriculum, Early Childhood Education Series, 2001, by Doris Bergen, Rebecca Reid, & Louis Torelli.
• Engaging Young Children in Mathematics: Standards for Early Childhood Mathematics Education, Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning, 2004, by Douglas H. Clement & Julie Sarama.
• Focus On Early Childhood: Principles and Realities, 2000, by Margaret Boushel, Mary Fawcett, & Julie Selwyn.
• Mathematical and Scientific Development in Early Childhood: A Workshop Summary, 2005, by Alix Beatty.
• Nutritional Requirements of Infants and Young Children: Practical Guidelines, 1998, by Joyce M. Thompson.
• Play in Early Childhood: From Birth to Six Years, 2002, by Mary D. Sheridan, Jackie Harding, & Liz Meldon-Smith.
• Scribble Scrabble--Learning to Read and Write: Success With Diverse Teachers, Children, and Families, 2000, by Daniel R. Meier.
• Shaping the Preschool Agenda: Early Literacy, Public Policy, and Professional Beliefs, SUNY Series, Literacy, Culture, and Learning, 1993, by Anne McGill-Franzen.
• Supervision in Early Childhood Education: A Developmental Perspective, Early Childhood Education Series, 1999, by Joseph J. Caruso & M. Temple Fawcett.
• Working With Children From Culturally Diverse Backgrounds, 2001, by M. Diane Klein & Deborah Chen.

Visit our eBook Collections for links to eBook Collection from EBSCOhost and other e-book collections. Please note that books that are still protected by copyright may not be available online in full-text from the free sources.

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LOCATIONS OF CARE & DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG CHILDREN RESOURCES IN THE LIBRARY:

Topics related to Care & Development of Young Children can be found in resources located in these Library of Congress call number ranges:

• BF712 to BF724.85 - Developmental psychology, including infant and child psychology.
• HQ767.8 to HQ792.2 - Sociology, the family, children, child development, including child rearing, child life, play, socialization, children's rights.
• HV701 to HV1420.5 - Social pathology - protection, assistance and relief; children.
• LB1139.2 to LB1139.5 - Early childhood education.
• LB1705 to LB2286 - Education and training of teachers.
• RJ101 to RJ103 - Pediatrics - Child health, child health services.
• RJ206 to RJ235 - Pediatrics - Nutrition and feeding of children and adolescents.

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SELECTED BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY:

• Beginnings & Beyond, 2000.
  Call number: LB 1139.23 .G663 2000
• Culture and the Development of Children's Action: A Theory of Human Development, 1997.
  Call number: BF 722 .V34 1997
• Developing and Administering a Child Care Center, 2003.
  Call number: HQ 778.63 .S35 2003
• Developmental Profiles: Pre-Birth through Twelve, 2003.
  Call number: RJ 131 .A496 2003
• Educating and Caring for Very Young Children: The Infant/Toddler Curriculum, 2001.
  Call number: LB 1139.4 .B47 2001
• Family Policy and Practice in Early Child Care, 1997.
  Call number: HV 854 .A64 1997
• From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Child Development, 2000.
  Call number: HQ 767.9 .F76 2000
• Handbook of Early Literacy Research, 2001.
  Call number: LB 1139.5 .L35H37 2001
• Planning Activites for Child Care: A Curriculum Guide for Early Childhood Education, 2002.
  Call number: LB 1139.25 .R67 2002
• The Practical Guide to Quality Child Care, 2001.
  Call number: HQ778.5 .K64 2001
• Quick Quality Check for Infant and Toddler Programs, 2001.
  Call number: HQ 778.5 .K64 2001
• A Survival Guide for Child Care Providers: Tips from the Trenches, 2002.
  Call number: HQ 778.5 .L48 2002
• Teacher Preparation for Early Childhood Education, 1992.
  Call number: LB 1732.3 .T43 1992
• Working with Young Children, 2007.
  Call number: HQ 778.63 .H47 2007

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SELECTED JOURNALS, MAGAZINES, & NEWSPAPERS:

Print periodicals are located in C-119 (LRC)

• Psychology and Education

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ONLINE RESOURCES:

• Child Development, from the Child Development Institute, providing "information on child development including prenatal, physical, intellectual, language and social development."
• Child Nutrition and Health: Lifecycle Nutrition, Food and Nutrition Information Center of the USDA.
• Early Childhood Education, from the U. S. Department of Education.
• The Future of Children "seeks to promote effective policies and programs for children by providing policymakers, service providers, and the media with timely, objective information based on the best available research;" it is the joint effort of The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and The Brookings Institution.
• NAEYC: National Association for the Education of Young Children, "founded in 1926, NAEYC is the world's largest organization working on behalf of young children, " and is "dedicated to improving the well-being of all young children, with particular focus on the quality of educational and developmental services for all children from birth through age 8."
• Zero to Three, "ZERO TO THREE is a national nonprofit organization that informs, trains and supports professionals, policymakers and parents in their efforts to improve the lives of infants and toddlers."

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