Play Around with Sounds to Prepare Your Child for Reading Success
June 20, 2025
Did you know that phonological awareness is one of the most important early literacy skills your child needs to be prepared for school? Here’s a fun way you can help your child build this important skill while enjoying rhymes together.
Developing Story Comprehension with Bob, Not Bob!
June 19, 2025
Does your child know how to identify the main elements of a story? Understanding a story’s structure (its Characters, Setting, Problem, Actions and Resolution) is an important part of story comprehension – a skill your child will need for literacy success. Here are some tips for helping your child learn about story structure with the fun book, Bob, Not Bob!
School Readiness Tip: Help Children See Other People’s Perspectives
June 02, 2025
Talking about how others think and feel helps children understand and appreciate different viewpoints, develop empathy, and relate to others. You can encourage children to think about how others might think by using these fun tips.
Making Predictions with Julie and the Mango Tree
May 15, 2025
Helping children predict what will happen next in a story is a great way to engage them in interactive book reading, as well as to deepen their story comprehension – a key early literacy skill. Here are some tips to help children make predictions with the beautiful children’s book, Julie and the Mango Tree.
School Readiness Tip: Talk About What Could Happen Next
May 13, 2025
Young children generally find it easy to talk about what is happening in the here and now. However, they need help talking about the future because this requires a more abstract use of language. You can help children talk about the future, which includes making predictions, during everyday activities and conversations.
Building Perspective-taking Skills with Amos’s Sweater
April 23, 2025
An important part of understanding stories is recognizing that characters have unique thoughts and feelings that influence what they say and do. Use these research-based tips to build the important perspective-taking skills that prepare your child for reading.
Help Your Child Learn and Talk About Feelings Going Beyond the Here-and-Now
April 23, 2025
You’ve probably heard that talking to your child is critical for their language development. But did you know that what you talk about when you respond to your child has an important influence on their later mental health?
School Readiness Tip: Help Children Use Language to Think and Learn
April 09, 2025
Children need to develop the ability to use language for thinking and learning. You can help by having discussions with them that include thought-provoking questions and explanations. Interactions like these encourage children to analyze, reflect and make connections. Here are some playful ways to get children involved in these more complex conversations.
Choosing People Games that Include Your Child’s Sensory Preferences
March 27, 2025
All children have unique sensory preferences, including autistic children. Learn how you can make the most of these preferences by matching them to “people games” – toy-free games where all the fun is in the interaction!