Part I: Cognitive development from birth through age 8
Cognitive development in the first three years of life / Zero to Three
Cognitive development in the preschool years / Heather Biggar Tomlinson & Marilou Hyson
Cognitive development in the kindergarten year / Heather Biggar Tomlinson
Cognitive development in the primary grades / Heather Biggar Tomlinson
Becoming enthusiastic and engaged / Marilou Hyson
Part II: Approaches for promoting cognitive development in the early childhood classroom
Section 1: Symbolic thought in the early years
Chopsticks and counting chips: do play and foundational skills need to compete for the teacher's attention in an early childhood classroom? / Elena Bodrova & Deborah J. Leong
Moving into uncertainty: sculpture with 3- to 5-year-olds / Carol Anne Wien with Bobbi-Lynn Keating, Annette Coates Comeau, & Barbara Bigelow
Building foundations for spatial literacy in early childhood / Susan L. Golbeck
Section 2: Executive function and the development of self-regulation
Recognizing and supporting the development of self-regulation in young children / Martha B. Bronson
Thinking out loud: development of private speech and the implications for school success and self-control / Becky A. Bailey & Carolyn Brookes
How planning and reflection develop young children's thinking skills / Ann S. Epstein
Developing self-regulation in kindergarten: can we keep all the crickets in the basket? / Elena Bodrova & Deborah J. Leong
Section 3: Higher order, complex thinking
Let's SQUiNK about it! A metacognitive approach to exploring text in a second grade classroom / Karen Capraro
From high chair to high school: research-based principles for teaching complex thinking / Roland Tharp & Susan Entz
Science in kindergarten / Ingrid Chalufour & Karen Worth.
