Table of Contents

@contents: Selected Contents: Introduction 1. What is basic for young children? Part I: How young children learn 2. A developmental approach to the curriculum in the early years 3. Does it matter what country you are in? Are all children the same everywhere or does it matter where you are? 4. Play - the powerful means of learning in the early years Part II: Understanding Children 5. Observing symbolic play 6. Under the microscope 7. Her eyes are flashing and her ears are sore 8. Louise Drawing 9. Patterns of Play: Observing and Supporting Young Children's Schemas Part III: All Our Children 10. Supporting young children 11. Learning about writing through bilingual peer teaching 12. How can bilingual children be supported in negotiating home and school environments in their early years? 13. Storysacks: A piece of action research 14. My dream school: A booklet for parents Part IV: Children as thinkers and problem-solvers 15. Mathematical development in the Early Years Foundation Stage: (Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy) 16. Tricks 17. ‘Let’s make honey’ 18. Making ice Part V: Understanding the written world 19. It all starts with /c/ /a/ /t/ - or does it? Foundation Phonics 20. Talking in your head: Young children's developing understanding of the reading process 21. Hannah and her books 22. A poem 23. Learning to read made easy: a study of one child's development as a reader 24. My life as a reader Part VI: Representing thoughts and feelings 25. Scaffolding Caitlin's learning 26. The workshop table - a stepping stone in the visual arts 27. Transformation through music: the impact of classical music on the lives of township children Part VII: Learning: a second chance 28. Late Early Learning: A 64-year-old begins to play the viola 29. A Second String? 30. Musicology to music-making: a late learner becomes a late starter 31. Becoming a Sculptor A last word: the search for the 'crock of gold'