Developmentally Appropriate
AND
Best Practice

DAP – theory Bredekamp, S. et all. “What Does Research Say About Early Childhood Education?” http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/stw_esys/5erly_ch.htm

Components of effective Research Supported Reading Instruction http://www.readingrockets.org/article.php?ID=47

Developmental milestone of early literacy:

In English: http://www.reachoutandread.org/downloads/RORmilestones_English.pdf
In Spanish  http://www.reachoutandread.org/downloads/RORmilestones_Spanish.pdf
In Chinese  http://www.reachoutandread.org/downloads/RORmilestones_Chinese.pdf
Developmentally Appropriate Practice What Does Research Tell Us?  http://ceep.crc.uiuc.edu/eecearchive/digests/1997/dunn97.pdf

Disposition to be a reader http://ceep.crc.uiuc.edu/pubs/katzsym/noyes.pdf

Early Literacy - Zero to Three web site http://www.zerotothree.org/brainwonders/EarlyLiteracy.html

Emerging Literacy: Linking Social Competence to Learning, Head Start Training Guide  http://www.bmcc.org/Headstart/Trngds/Literacy/pref_21.htm

Emotions, multiple intelligence and literacy http://ecap.crc.uiuc.edu/info/pubs/katzsym/shuster.pdf

Growing Up Reading http://www.growupreading.org/

Literacy Web University Connecticut http://www.literacy.uconn.edu/index.htm

NAEYC http://www.naeyc.org/about/positions/pdf/PSREAD98.PDF#xml=http://naeychq.naeyc.org/texis/search/pdfhi.txt?query=Literacy+position+statement&pr=naeyc&prox=sentence&rorder=750&rprox=500&rdfreq=1000&rwfreq=1000&rlead=1000&sufs=2&order=r&cq=&id=424d5f797

Principles of Child Development and Learning that Inform Developmentally Appropriate Practice
http://www.naeyc.org/about/positions/dap3.asp

Teaching Reading IS Rocket Science
http://www.aft.org/pubs-reports/downloads/teachers/rocketsci.pdf

Teaching Our Youngest: A Guide for Preschool Teachers & Child Care & Family Providers
http://www.ed.gov/teachers/how/early/teachingouryoungest/teachingouryoungest.pdf

Working with Preschoolers: http://www.nwrel.org/learns/tutor/spr2000/spr2000.PDF