Additional Resources

Resources for Learning Through Play

Online

Early Head Start National Resource Center

• News You Can Use: Play

National Center on Early Childhood Development, Teaching, and Learning

• Playing to Learn: Benefits of Play in Early Childhood (webinar and print materials)

Books

Daly, Lisa; Miriam Beloglovsky. Loose Parts 2: Inspiring Play with Infants and Toddlers. Washington, DC: National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), 2017.

Johnson, Jeff A. Babies in the Rain: Promoting Play, Exploration, and Discovery with Infants and Toddlers. St. Paul, MN: Redleaf Press, 2009.

Koralek, Derry; Holly Bohart, Kathy Charner. Spotlight on Young Children: Exploring Play. Washington, DC: NAEYC, 2015.

Resources to Support Infant and Toddler School Readiness

Center for Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation

• Taking Care of Ourselves: Stress and Relaxation

Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University

• 5 Steps for Brain-Building Serve and Return
• Children’s Emotional Development Is Built into the Architecture of Their Brains: Working Paper No. 2

EarlyEdU Alliance^® Higher Education Learning Modules

• Mindfulness: A Resilience Practice

Early Head Start National Resource Center

• Early Essentials (video series)
• News You Can Use (print series) 

National Center on Early Childhood Development, Teaching, and Learning

• 15-minute In-service Suites
  • Instructional Interactions: Language Modeling and Conversations, Birth to 5
  • Implementing Research-Based Curriculum and Teaching Practices: STEAM (Birth to 5)
• BabyTalks (video series)
• Connecting Research to Practice: Tips for Working with Infants, Toddlers, and Their Families (print series) 
• Curriculum Consumer Report
• Disabilities Services Newsletters (print series)
  • Early Childhood Equity and Inclusion: Establishing Equitable Early Learning Environments
  • Supporting Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities or Suspected Delays and Their Families in the Home and in the Classroom  
• The Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework (ELOF) Effective Practice Guides (print and video series, Birth to 5)
• Home Visiting Series (video series)
  • Learning at Home: Supporting Parents to Promote Infant-Toddler Development  
• Planned Language Approach (print series; Birth to 5)
  • Big 5 for ALL
  • Home Language Support
  • Dual Language Learners (DLLs) Research to Practice Briefs: Primed and Ready to Learn
• Teacher Time (video series)
  • Infant/Toddler Curriculum Series: Implementing Curriculum in a Responsive Environment, Birth to 5
  • Infant/Toddler Effective Practice Series: Promoting Children’s Development and Learning with the Framework for Effective Practice, Birth to 5
• Understanding STEAM and How Children Use It (print; Birth to 5)

National Center on Parent, Family, and Community Engagement

• Building Partnerships with Families Series (print)
• Relationship-Based Competencies to Support Family Engagement
• Understanding Family Engagement Outcomes: Research to Practice Series (print)
  • Family Engagement and School Readiness

Last Updated: March 22, 2022