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Core knowledge and skills for Child Care Staff

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Below are a sample of Core Knowledge and Skills related articles for Child Care Staff.

• Child Growth and Development
  • Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: How You Can Help (Texas Child Care/Spring 2004)
  • Which Hand? Brains, fine motor skills, and holding a pencil (Texas Child Care/Spring 2007)
  • ADHD: Leave the diagnosis to the doctor (Texas Child Care/Winter 2007)
• Health and Safety
  • Preventing Child Sexual Abuse (Texas Child Care/Spring 2005)
  • Ouch! Biting hurts (Texas Child Care/Summer 2007)
  • Physical activity for young children: Move it (Texas Child Care/Winter 2004)
• Professional Practice Methods and Curriculum
  • Teacher-child interaction: How are you at brain building? (Texas Child Care/Winter 2007)
  • Cross-gender play in preschool children (Texas Child Care/Winter 2006)
  • To say or not to say: Using better language choices to guide children . . . (Texas Child Care/Winter 2007)
  • Using Symbols to build math skills (Texas Child Care/Summer 2007)
  • Sticks and Stones: Words can hurt (Texas Child Care/Spring 2007)
  • Ouch! Biting hurts (Texas Child Care/Summer 2007)
  • Early literacy: The essentials
    • Part 1. Beginning conversations (Texas Child Care/Fall 2005)
    • Part 2. Sharing books and asking questions (Texas Child Care/Winter 2005)
    • Part 3. Phonological awareness and the alphabet (Texas Child Care/Spring 2006)
    • Part 4. Supporting and assessing emergent reading and writing (Texas Child Care/Summer 2006)
• Cultural and Individual Diversity
  • Multicultural education: Is it really necessary? (Texas Child Care/Spring 2004)
• Observation and Assessment
  • Standards, assessments, and portfolios: Getting started (Texas Child Care/Spring 2007)
  • ADHD: Leave the diagnosis to the doctor (Texas Child Care/Winter 2007)
    

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