Chapter Outline

Body Growth and Change

Height and Weight

The Brain

Motor Development

Gross Motor Skills

Fine Motor Skills

Handedness

Nutrition

Energy Needs

Eating Behavior

Illness and Death

The United States

The State of Illness and Health of the World’s Children

Piaget’s Preoperational Stage of Development

Symbolic Function Substage

Intuitive Thought Substage

Vygotsky’s Theory of Development

Zone of Proximal Development

Scaffolding

Language and Thought

Evaluating and Comparing Vygotsky’s and Piaget’s Theories

Teaching Strategies Based on Vygotsky’s Theory

Information Processing

Attention

Memory

Strategies

The Young Child’s Theory of Mind

The Child-Centered Kindergarten

The Montessori Approach

Developmentally Appropriate and Inappropriate Practices

Does Preschool Matter?

Education for Disadvantaged Children