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Beyond the noise: Music and Movement
When you think of children taking part in music and movement, some may think of children running around singing at the top of their lungs...
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Easy ways to help your child become kindergarten-ready
How exciting! Even if the big day is still months away, it’s not too early to start preparing your child for that first day of...
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Journaling: Spilling the ink from head to heart to paper
A journal is a place where you can write all kinds of things: ideas, questions, thoughts, true stories, invented stories, rough drafts...
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16 valuable books for kids of all ages: An educator's selection
There is no more important activity for preparing your child to succeed as a reader than reading aloud together. Fill your story times...
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Sowing the seeds of literacy independence
Investing time and space for independent exploration and creation of texts allows children to spend more time to experiment with reading...
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How children can truly learn online
Teaching kids online comes with its own set of challenges. You can ask us because we do a lot it. Kids look forward to high-quality,...
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An overview of developing writing skills in children
Sometimes it looks like children’s writing evolves naturally: from a few squiggles, to random strings of letters, to increasingly...
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Spelling 101: A simple context
There are approximately 400,000 words in a dictionary. In about 50% of the words, sound and letter associations map simply and perfectly....
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An introduction to vocabulary building
Oral vocabulary refers to words that we use in speaking or comprehend in listening. Reading vocabulary refers to words we comprehend or...
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The importance of early fluency
When fluent readers read silently, they recognize words automatically. They group words quickly to help them gain meaning from what they...
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Phonological and phonemic awareness: What’s the difference?
Phonological awareness is the ability to recognize and manipulate the spoken parts of sentences and words. Examples include being able to...
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Understanding why some kids struggle to read
Some kids have a learning disability that makes reading difficult to learn. Others come to school without the literacy experiences they...
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10 reading tips for parents of pre-schoolers
The early years are critical to developing a lifelong love of reading. The tips below offer some fun ways you can help your child become...
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Sleeping habits: your questions, answered
Research shows that children who regularly get an adequate amount of sleep have improved attention spans, behavioral patterns, learning...
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Psychological safety starts at home for children
In these busy, hectic days we take our kids to sports practice, games, music lessons, tuition classes and other activities to provide our...
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Help your child overcome the fear of failure
Fear can be instilled through immediate personal experience, or it can be indirectly inherited via societal factors such as precautionary...
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Helping children with development delays
The early childhood years are a particularly important period because learning typically occurs very rapidly during this time. Children...
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The benefits of making time for your kids
We breathe in a world of prevalent screen time and inescapable social media platforms, to a point where many of us have become less than...
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Fun questions to help your child open up
There’s so much to discover within each child if we take the valuable time to pause and listen. Children don’t voluntarily confide or...
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