Outstanding strategies you can use immediately:

• Dozens of center ideas, strategies and tips you can use immediately in your preschool and kindergarten classroom
• Classroom-proven strategies to scaffold your students as they develop key skills and independence
• Ways to enhance your literacy program using mini‑lessons connected to classic children’s literature
• Ideas to encourage independent learning using centers to support the skills and concepts you teach
• Numerous ideas to cross the curriculum in science, social studies and math using mini-lesson strategies and techniques
• Social skills mini-lessons that are perfect for a divers population of the youngest learners
• Ways to promote reading, writing, listening, and speaking through easy-to-use and relevant mini‑lessons
• How to share mini-lessons at home with parents in order to encourage and support learning outside the classroom
• How to assess and evaluate mini-lessons using simple techniques and responses, both oral and written
• How to create and use inexpensive classroom materials to motivate your students