Ten things every child needs

for the best start in life!

DVD - A production of WTTW Chicago for the

Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation

A special video designed to show how parents can influence their child's early brain development and mental faculties. The ten factors include interaction with your child, stability, self-esteem, play, communication, and reading. Learn all about how to give your child a head start with help from brain researchers and child experts.

Inclusive Lesson Plans

Throughout the year

Laverne Warner, Sharon Lynch, Diana Nabors, Cynthia Simpson

Inclusive Lesson Plans Throughout the Year has over 150 lesson plans for teachers who have children with special needs in their early childhood classrooms. Perfect for both beginning teachers and veteran teachers, Inclusive Lesson Plans Throughout the Year helps new teachers develop plans for each day and provides veteran teachers with new ideas and approaches to add spark to their classroom teaching.

The first chapter provides information on planning for children's needs, best practices, the learning environment, and planning instructions. The lesson plans in the subsequent chapters are organized by theme and follow a typical school year, offering teachers a plan appropriate for all children.

Each lesson plan is complete with learning objectives, the lesson, a review, materials list, directions for preparation, an assessment component, extension activities to connect the lesson to different areas of the curriculum, and adaptations or modifications for children with a variety of special needs.

Each lesson plan has accommodations or modifications for children with: