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You can only teach young children so much during the school day, which is why partnering with parents to ensure concepts and skills are reinforced at home is so essential to children's learning. This is especially true for early reading and literacy skills. If young children don't have positive reading experiences and access to books at home, they're less likely to enjoy reading and more likely to have challenges with reading and other literacy skills.Read More Here

Helping children build vocabulary and develop language skills to get what they need and want is a key teaching task in the early childhood classroom. So many important developmental tasks are tied to children’s ability to access and use language in the right ways at the right time. And, one of the most important predictors of children’s future success as readers is the size of their vocabulary at age five. Read More Here

Valentine's Day is right around the corner! While your preschoolers may not have a special valentine in their lives now, it's never too early to teach them about being kind to others to prepare them for the day they do.

Much has been written about how art enhances creativity, imagination, and self-esteem, but far less is said about how art encourages cognition, critical thinking, and learning.

Children can often catch you off guard with what they say or how they describe something. Their minds work in fascinating ways, and it can be quite refreshing (and amusing) to see the world through children's eyes.

From Google Creative Labs announcing their new Project Bloks research project, to tangible technology toys aimed at parents, it can feel like excitement for coding is everywhere.

Children are natural scientists - investigating, exploring, and experimenting with the materials found in their environment.

As an educator, you have the power to boost your students learning potential by making books an integral part of their lives.

Children are never too young to move and learn about what their bodies are capable of doing.

Literacy is the "in" word today in education. We all want our children to read. Early. But literacy is not something we simply teach, and it's not something a child starts to learn when he or she enters school. It's a complex process that starts at birth, and includes a child learning in four basic areas: language, listening, writing, and reading - all at the same time!