Contents Summer 2006
Back to Basics: Child guidance: An overview
(inside front cover)
Features
2
Early literacy: The essentials
Part 4: Supporting and assessing emergent reading and writing
12
Snip, clip, and learn: Using old magazines and newspapers in the early childhood classroom
by Julie Dill
16
Parent handbooks that help sell your program
24
Puzzles: Set the table for learning
by Nancy Maldonado
34
Insects and spiders—Arthropods everywhere
Departments
10
Stuff and new stuff
22
Licensing dateline
23
Ask ECI
32
Building a business
43
Study guide
Texas Parenting News
(center pullout)
Parents Bulletin Board
(inside back cover)
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