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Plan Inclusive Learning Experience
Let's Take a “Touch” Walk (REC #6202) This lesson invites students to take a walk outside the school building, to use their senses to explore the environment and then to use and develop language skills to describe it.

Learn More about Inclusion
Interactive Tools for Parents: Developmental Milestones (REC #9602) This interactive tool allows the user to view how a developmental milestone category changes as a child grows.

Build Family Connections
Pet Survey (REC #6214) This lesson has the children and teacher creating and conducting a survey about pets of friends and family, and eventually analyzing the results..

Explore Inquiry Projects
The Trackhoe Project (REC #13989) Watching a busy trackhoe at work outside the playground fence every day and hearing the “beep, beep, beep” as it backed from place to place piqued the children’s curiosity about large construction machines and led to an exploration of trackhoes.

Examine Best Practices
Beyond the Story Book: Using Informational Books with Young Children (REC #8672) This is the second best practice brief, a concise (but meaty) article detailing research based, authentic, and age appropriate practices and experiences, in the area of early childhood language arts and
 
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