Donna Sasse Wittmer Books

With new activities and explorations, tips and information to help you understand how to support the littlest learners, and research nuggets to enhance your own professional knowledge, the Encyclopedia of Infant and Toddler Activities, revised, will be your go-to resource!Learn about the rapid brain growth in the earliest years.Discover how infants and toddlers learn through active exploration.Learn how to create a developmentally appropriate environment where infants and toddlers feel safe to explore.Find out how to support development of language, social-emotional, cognitive, and motor skills.Activities will help you support curiosity, play, exploration, persistence, emerging foundations in literacy and math, problem solving, and so much more!AWARD WINNER! Recipient of: Creative Child Magazine 2018 Seal of Excellence Award, Baby and Toddler Activity Books Category

For courses in Infant and Toddler Early Childhood Education.This comprehensive, applied text covers infant and toddler development from prebirth through age 36 months, curriculum, and program planning using a relationship-based model. It is different from other texts in that it is the most comprehensive, covering all three topics in one text. In addition, it has a major focus on the teacher's responsiveness in interactions with children, particularly strong coverage of infants and toddlers with special needs, and the effects of culture on infant/toddler development and interactions.