Item Description

The first manual describes month-by-month small and large muscle coordination activities, sensory stimulation for oral language development, reading and mathematics readiness activities, music and rhythm activities, concept development, and the presentation of children’s literature. The packet also contains sentence strips along with patterns for numerals and shapes. Books 2 and 3 contain suggestions for teaching science and mathematics to preschoolers and kindergartners.

Suitable for children 18 months to 5 years of age. Parents learn enrichment activities that aid literacy development for in early childhood.

ECLE is a unique approach to teaching young children in order to take advantage of their innate learning ability. ECLE provides teachers and parents with activities and experiences that strengthen their children’s thinking abilities, build confidence in social situations, develop their children’s oral language and motor skills, and help their children interact with adults in meaningful ways.

ECLE provides parents with the tools they need to expand their children’s learning environment at home, ensuring that all important aspects are covered in preparing them to enter and excel in school.

ECLE is also used by many preschools, kindergartens, day care centers, and other early childhood education programs such as Even Start around the country.

Prior Evidence of Effectiveness

Claims of effectiveness were evaluated by using pre and post treatment group measures contrasted with those from equivalent comparison groups and with normative data provided by the test developer. The sample used included five separate groups of students enrolled in the ECLE program from 1988 to 1993. The subscales of the Mental Development Index (MDI) and the Psychomotor Development Index (PDI) of the Bayley Scales of Infant Development were the tools used to measure projected growth. Results showed statistically significant gains made on both the MDI and PDI indices between the ECLE and comparison groups. On average, for every one month in the program ECLE children showed more than two months of growth relative to the normative group.