
Suggested readings and resources

Fountains
The children of La Villetta Preschool decided that the birds that inhabit the school grounds needed an amusement park. This book contains teacher’s notes about the intent and process of

Documentation and the Early Years Learning Framework
Authors: Jan Millikan and Stefania Giamminuti From the Foreword by Jennifer Sumsion: “Jan and Stefania have taken up the challenge of ensuring that belonging, being and becoming doesn’t descend into

Hundred Languages of Children in Ministories
Told by Teachers and Children from Reggio Emilia A collection of the timeless, extraordinary stories first seen in the Italian edition of The Hundred Languages of Children (1993). The stories

Advisories: 5 and 6 year-old children tell incoming 3 year-olds about their new preschool
A book by the children, teachers and parents of Diana Preschool. A project where the five and six-year-old children, who are leaving the preschool for the elementary school, tell the

Making Learning Visible
Texts by Howard Gardner, Paola Cagliari, Vea Vecchi, Steve Seidel et al. From the research carried out in Reggio Emilia with Howard Gardner and Harvard Project Zero along with the

Dancing with Reggio Emilia
Author: Stefania Giamminuti Stefania Giamminuti spent six months researching in the municipal infant–toddler centres and schools of Reggio Emilia, Italy. Her unique experiences are vividly recounted in this rich book,

Pedagogical Documentation in Early Years Practice: Seeing Through Multiple Perspectives
Pedagogical documentation is a vital method of assessing and observing young children, and is a practice that enables practitioners, families and children to learn alongside each other. This book draws

Conversations: behind early childhood pedagogical documentation
Authors: Alma Fleet, Catherine Patterson, Janet Robertson “The ideas and concepts surrounding pedagogical documentation have been, for many, vague, slippery and hard to pin-down … This book teaches us to