NAEYC Resources
The Resource Library for the Professional Standards and Competencies (PS&Cs) hosts a large collection of free resources from many sources, including NAEYC, curated in one convenient and searchable site. However, we’d be remiss not to call attention to the many, high quality and research-based books, journal articles and other resources NAEYC has to offer to support your work as faculty or PD/TA providers. While some of these resources are not free, many find these resources such as NAEYC's book, Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth Through Age 8, Fourth Edition | NAEYC, and a wider range of articles from Young Children essential to their teaching.
This page will help get you connected to the additional NAEYC publications that can support your work!
Key NAEYC Resources
No matter the professional standard or key competency, NAEYC has high-quality, research-based resources you can use! From print and e-books to our peer-reviewed journal and magazine, NAEYC’s award winning publications can take your teaching and training of early educators to new heights.
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Key NAEYC resources include:
Developmentally Appropriate Practice: Focus on Children in First, Second, and Third Grades
Anti Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves, Second Edition
Each and Every Child: Teaching Preschool with an Equity Lens
Focus on Developmentally Appropriate Practice: Equitable and Joyful Learning in Preschool
The Essentials: Supporting Young Children with Disabilities in the Classroom
DEC Recommended Practices Monograph Series No. 2: Environment
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Key NAEYC resources include:
Spotlight on Young Children: Observation and Assessment, Volume 2
Basics of Assessment: A Primer for Early Childhood Professionals
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Key NAEYC resources include:
Day to Day the Relationship Way: Creating Responsive Programs for Infants and Toddlers
The Intentional Teacher: Choosing the Best Strategies for Young Children’s Learning, Third Edition
Anti Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves, Second Edition
From Children's Interests to Children's Thinking: Using a Cycle of Inquiry to Plan Curriculum
From Play to Practice: Connecting Teachers' Play to Children's Learning
Infants and Toddlers at Play: Choosing the Right Stuff for Learning and Development
From Children's Interests to Children's Thinking: Using a Cycle of Inquiry to Plan Curriculum
This Is Play: Environments and Interactions that Engage Infants and Toddlers
Addressing Challenging Behavior in Young Children: The Leader's Role
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Key NAEYC resources include:
Media Literacy for Young Children: Teaching Beyond the Screen Time Debates
So Much More than the ABCs: The Early Phases of Reading and Writing, Revised Edition
Ramps and Pathways: A Constructivist Approach to Physics With Young Children
A Place for Wonder: Reading and Writing Nonfiction in the Primary Grades
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Key NAEYC resources include:
Five Elements of Collective Leadership for Early Childhood Professionals
Professionalizing Early Childhood Education as a Field of Practice: A Guide to the Next Era
Anti Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves, Second Edition
Ethics and the Early Childhood Educator: Using the NAEYC Code, Third Edition
And that’s not all…
BOOKS
Check out a sample of NAEYC books
aligned to the Professional Standards below!
Journals and Magazines
NAEYC’s peer-reviewed journal, Young Children (YC), and member magazine, Educating Young Children (EYC), are rich with resources to support you and your work with early educators!
YC and EYC are a member benefit! With your membership, you can read every issue through the membership portal. Members also have access to magazine articles in Teaching Young Children, which was published from 2009-2025.
Select articles are available for nonmembers on NAEYC’s website. Individuals can also access YC articles through digital library databases, like JSTOR, EBSCO, and ProQuest, if available at their institution. Though select articles are available for non-members, full editions of these current and past NAEYC publications are available as a benefit with your NAEYC membership fee, so login or join today!
Like many NAEYC books, each issue of YC and EYC centers on a particular topic or theme that aligns to the “Professional Standards and Competencies for Early Childhood Educators” and other foundational position statements. That means multiple articles in one issue will support you and your students, trainees, or mentees.
Check out a sample of articles aligned to the standards below!
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Sample resources include:
Nurturing Multilingual Learners in Preschool (Teaching Young Children-Summer 2024)
Individuality: Supporting Each and Every Preschooler (Teaching Young Children-Spring 2024)
Advances in Understanding Child Development and Learning: Through a Lens of Equity (Young Children-Fall 2023)
Individuality and Inclusive Practices for Early Childhood (Young Children- Winter 2021)
Social & Emotional Development: For Our Youngest Learners & Beyond (Young Children-Spring 2021)
Nurturing Social & Emotional Development (Teaching Young Children-Spring 2021)
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Sample resources include:
EYC Winter 2027 will focus on Partnering with Families and Communities to Support Children's Development. Stay tuned!
Engaging Families of Multilingual Learners: Using Families’ Stories to Link Classroom Content with Children’s Funds of Knowledge (unlocked) (Young Children-Fall 2024)
Viewpoint. Family/Community Contexts and the Problem of Half-Truths in Early Childhood Education: Learning from Barbara (locked) (Young Children-Fall 2023)
Dare to Roar: Tapping Families’ Expertise to Guide Planning and Teaching (locked) (Teaching Young Children-Spring 2024)
To Speak or Not To Speak My Language: Supporting Families’ Home Language Practices (unlocked) (Teaching Young Children- Fall 2023)
Integrating Families’ Funds of Knowledge into Daily Teaching Practices (locked) (Teaching Young Children-Fall 2023)
Difficult Conversations About Equity: Strategies for Working with Families (locked) (Teaching Young Children-Fall 2023)
Welcoming in, Learning About, and Learning from Families (Young Children- Winter 2022)
Partnering with Families, Helping Children through Change (Teaching Young Children-October/November 2020)
Engaging Fathers, Home Visits (Teaching Young Children- August/September 2019)
Supporting Families: Education and Collaboration (Young Children- September 2018)
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Sample resources include:
Developmentally Appropriate Assessment Practices: Gathering, Understanding, and Using Information (Young Children- Spring 2023)
Assessment Practices in Preschool (Teaching Young Children-Fall 2022)
Embedded Learning Opportunities for Children with and Without Disabilities (locked) (Young Children- Winter 2021)
Learning Stories: Observation, Reflection, and Narrative in Early Childhood Education (unlocked) (Young Children-Summer 2021)
Intentional & Supportive: Appropriate Uses of Early Assessments (Young Children-July 2019)
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Sample resources include:
Joy and Learning: Engaging and Impactful Teaching in Action (Educating Young Children- Fall 2025)
Effective Curriculum: Designing and Implementing Meaningful Learning for Every Child (Young Children-Summer 2025)
Balancing Formats and Choice (Educating Young Children- Spring 2025)
Transforming Our Understanding of and Approaches to Children’s Behavior (Young Children- Spring 2025)
Informed and Guided by Context: Strengths-Based Teaching and Learning (Young Children-Fall 2024)
Self-Regulation and Executive Function: Responsive and Informed Practices for Early Childhood (Young Children- Summer 2024)
Voices of Practitioners, Winter 2024, Volume 19-Focus on Play
DAP and Playful Learning: Equitable Approaches (Young Children- Summer 2022)
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Sample resources include:
Promoting Early Literacy Through Researched-Based Practices (Educating Young Children-Winter 2026)
Equitable STEM Learning in Preschool and Kindergarten (Teaching Young Children-Winter 2025)
Knowledgeable and Engaged Young Citizens: Social Studies in Early Childhood (Young Children-Spring 2024)
Voices of Practitioners, Winter 2024, Volume 19-Focus on Literacy
Tinkering, Making, and Engineering in Preschool and Kindergarten (Teaching Young Children-Fall 2024)
Literacy Practices for Preschool (Teaching Young Children-Winter 2024)
Playful and Engaging Arts Integration (Teaching Young Children-Winter 2023)
Technology and Media in Early Childhood Education (Young Children-Winter 2023)
Early Math Learning: Intentional Instruction, Playful Experiences (Young Children-Fall 2022)
Playful Content Learning (Teaching Young Children-Summer 2022)
A Focus on Math (Teaching Young Children-Spring 2022)
Supporting Literacy Through Engaging Instruction & Materials (Young Children-Fall 2021)
Fostering Content Knowledge: Meaningful Integration in the Primary Grades (Young Children-September 2020)
Nurturing Wonder: STEM, STEAM, STREAM (Young Children-May 2020)
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Sample resources include:
Fall 2026 EYC will focus on Growing as an ECE Professional- Stay tuned!
Leadership in Early Learning Programs and Schools (Young Children- Fall 2025)
Equitable, Effective Early Childhood Education for All: Policy and Advocacy to Get Us There (Young Children- Summer 2023)
Effective Preschool Leadership and Management fit? (Teaching Young Children-Summer 2023)
Focus on Educators Teaching & Leading (Voices of Practitioners-Fall 202, Volume 15)
The Power of Early Childhood Education: Expanding Educational Equity, Shrinking the Achievement Gap (Young Children-May 2018)
Past Focus on Ethics column editions
Past Voices of Practitioners column editions
And there’s so much more to explore…
NAEYC Resource Permissions
Whether the material is free to read or fee-based, NAEYC content is copyrighted and may not be reproduced, distributed, or otherwise used in any format without the express written permission of NAEYC (except in a few instances). Please note that NAEYC does charge permission fees for some content use.
To learn more about NAEYC materials and permission, visit NAEYC’s Permissions, Reprint, and Translation Requests page. It includes details about:
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