Curriculum Development

6X. Six Ways Educators Can Honor Home Languages

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Summer 2024

Teaching Young Children is NAEYC's magazine for anyone who works with preschoolers. Colorful, informative, and easy-to-read, TYC is packed full of teaching ideas, strategies, and tips.

Toward An Equity-Centered Approach to Early Childhood Social Studies

In this article, we follow Ms. Mena’s kindergartners’ lead to imagine an approach to early childhood social studies that makes space and time for inquiry into compelling social studies questions.

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Rocking and Rolling. Supporting Curiosity and Inquiry in Early Social Studies

By leveraging children's natural curiosity, educators can offer a wide range of equity-based opportunities to learn about social studies principles every single day.

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Powering Up: Interdisciplinary Project-Based Learning for Young Engaged Citizens

Using project-based learning with a social justice focus helps develop interdisciplinary instruction across social studies disciplines.

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Knowledgeable and Engaged Young Citizens: Social Studies in Early Childhood

This issue of Young Children focuses on some of these key concepts and effective practices for promoting early social studies.

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Reading, Coding, and Crafting: Introducing Computational Thinking to Young Children

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Creating Multimodal Experiences to Engage All Students in Early Grade Classrooms

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Shifting from a Classroom of Reluctant Compliance to a Classroom of Responsive Curiosity

This article presents a three-part playful learning framework to help educators move from a culture of compliance to one of agency and curiosity.

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Elias Blinkoff, Charlotte Anne Wright, Molly Scott, Katelyn Fletcher, Allyson S. Masters, Hande Ilgaz, Lien Vu, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

So Much More than the ABCs: The Early Phases of Reading and Writing, Revised Edition

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The Preschool Birth Stories Project: Developing Emergent Curriculum with Families

In “The Preschool Birth Stories Project,” the children are absorbed in family narratives about their own and their classmates’ births.

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Emergent Curriculum and the Cycle of Inquiry (On Demand)

NAEYC’s Emergent Curriculum and the Cycle of Inquiry Approach course, is the first step on your journey to guiding children through an emergent curriculum.

Rethinking Field Trips: Venturing Out to Foster Meaningful Learning

Knowing that local field trips are a source of curriculum in early childhood education, two teachers venture to a theater with their class, then engage in a project about storytelling, performance, and stages.

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Exploring Nature Indoors with Observational Drawing and Scientific Thinking

One valuable way we can support children’s exploration of nature is by teaching them how to observe carefully and create observational drawings, which encourage children to understand and question their world.

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Ten Things I Learned in the Virtual Classroom that I’ll Use This Year

After using hand-on learning in my virtual classroom, here are key ideas I learned while teaching in the pandemic Zoom classroom that I will be carrying with me as we begin the upcoming school year.

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NAEYC Publishes Book on Integrating the Learning Stories Approach

NAEYC promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on behalf of young children.