Focused Observations, Third Edition, explains how observation can help you get to know each child well, track progress, and plan individualized curriculum. It also provides tools and techniques to help you strengthen your observations, create portfolios with rich documentation, and support each child. You will also learn how to share your findings with families and grow as an observer through review and reflection activities. Online videos with nineteen vignettes of children in action provide opportunities to practice observing children and capturing what you see. This updated edition includes new examples and provider anecdotes as well as updated references and research. Nineteen vignettes of children in action provide opportunities to practice observing children and capturing what you see. 79 minutes of video available online. Age Focus: 0-8. Softbound. 272 pages