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Ilderton Resources - Language, Learning & Literacy

Baby Signs: How to talk with your baby before your baby can talk - Linda Acredolo, Susan Goodwyn & Doug Abrams

This book is for parents who want their children to learn baby sign language. There are a lot of pictures and advice in this to help you teach your baby to sign.  

Brain Games for Babies, Toddlers & Twos - Jackie Silberg

Simple, fun filled games to stimulate the active brains of toddlers from 0-3 years. 

It Takes Two to Talk: A parent’s guide to helping children communicate  - by Ayala Manolson

This book talks about connecting and communicating with your child.  It expands on the three ways to build connections and encourage language use. It talks about talking while you play games, move with music, share books and do creative art together.  There are lots of ideas for games and activities to try. This book has many practical ideas.

Learning to talk - by Johnsons

A practical guide for parents on learning to talk and first words!.  Topics include building vocabulary, talk and play, chatterboxes, conversations and active listening.

Learning with Mother Goose - Elizabeth Flikkema

This book contains twenty rhymes and accompanying activities for learning with math, science and art themes. 

Let's Play & Learn - by Barbara Allman et al

Looking for fun activities that are easy to prepare? This book is chocked full of ideas and suggestions for teachers, caregivers and parents who would like to enhance the learning opportunities for preschoolers.

Letter of the week - Scholastic

A comprehensive, reproducible book for teaching the letters of the alphabet.  Each letter chapter contains a large capital and a lower case letter with numerous ideas for activities.

Make a Joyful Noise - by the Oberkotter Foundation

This kit contains a book and a video (20 minutes). This kit is produced by an organization that advocates for teaching deaf children to speak not to sign. The booklet addresses finding out your child is hard of hearing, what are your options for communication, introduces oral deaf education, and addresses advocating for your child.  It presents almost solely the oral deaf education option.

Observing Young Children: A Guide for Early Childhood Educators in Canada - by Sally Wylie

Reading Magic: Why reading aloud to our children will change their lives forever - by Mem Fox

This easy to read, humorous book talks about how important it is to read with your child. It has many real-life examples and practical suggestions. The focus is on having fun reading with your child. It is very easy and enjoyable to read.

Ready - Start - School: Nurturing and guiding your child through preschool & kindergarten  - Sandra F. Rief

This practical, easy-to-understand guide is designed to help boost a child's performance in school and increase the opportunities for success in life.

Seeing young children - A guide to observing and recording behavior - Warren R. Bentzen

This comprehensive book explores the practical and theoretical aspects of observing the behaviour of young children.  It includes such topics as the nature and importance of observation in early child care settings.

The essentials of Early Childhood Education - by Carol Gestwicki

This book is designed to be the ideal motivational tool for beginning teachers entering the field of early childhood education.  This text encourages students to be active participants in the decision making process of becoming early childhood teachers.

Your Child can succeed in school - Dorothy Rubin

This book answers 100 common questions that parents ask about school, including reading, homework, studying skills, sex education, and more.

We are proud to be the host agency for the Perth-Middlesex Early Years Centres.