Your child may understand what is happening in a book, but what about why it’s happening?  Talking about the reasons things happen in a story helps your child make important cause-and-effect connections, which deepens their story understanding. Here are some tips to help! 

Studies show a strong connection between vocabulary development and academic success. Here are some tips to make the most of your preschool day to ensure that children have as many opportunities as possible to learn new words.

One effective technique for deepening your child's story understanding is to relate what’s happening in the book to your child’s existing knowledge and experiences.  Here are some tips to help you do that with the very relatable book, Moving Day.

To really understand a story, children need to use critical thinking skills like problem-solving. Find out how you can encourage your child to problem-solve using the fun book, Grumpy Bird.

One of the key ways to prepare young children for school success is to build their emergent literacy skills – the skills required before a child begins to read and write. What are the key emergent literacy skills young children need to learn, and what are some of the research-based ways we can support them?

Did you know that your child's ability to self-regulate is directly related to his language learning, as well as many other areas of his development? Find out why this skill is so important and what sort of things might affect your child's ability to self-regulate.

If your child already uses short sentences and understands simple questions, he’s now ready for you to help him take the next step in his language journey – understanding and using “decontextualized language” or “language for thinking and learning”. Here are some practical tips for helping your child develop this important language skill.

To be prepared for school, children need to be able to understand and use a specific kind of language called "decontextualized language" or "language for thinking and learning". Learn more about what this kind of language is and how it sets the stage for academic success.

We know that having strong early skills in areas like math and literacy predicts children's success in those areas later on. But imagine a skill that predicts not only its own success, but the success of many other academic and social skills as well. Does such a "super skill" exist?