Primary classrooms are just four walls until the teachers enter. Step by step, teachers build their classrooms: They build the environment, they build relationships with the children, they build partnerships with families, they build classroom communities, and most important, they build competent, successful learners.

Building the Primary Classroom puts the best elements of classroom management and curriculum content together in one concise volume. Part I defines six strategies that provide a framework for making decisions and implementing curriculum content that is responsive to each child. Part II shows how concepts and skills are taught within the Building the Primary Classroom framework. Click on the headings in the framework to learn more.