Dyslexia laws are now nearly universal across the US. But the data shows that passing a law is not the same as improving how children learn to read.
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Recent research shows that young children typically manipulate and rotate entire objects in their minds to understand challenges such as puzzles.
Because bias is learned from a very early age, reading and learning about diverse experiences cannot start too soon. Here are five Australian picture books that centre on queer stories.
Grocery shopping and family meals are prime opportunities to build reading and math skills – particularly for young Latino children, a new study finds.
Picture books and young adult biographies can introduce kids to design-based thinking and engineering habits like creativity and persistence.
To “warm up” a book, use the K-W-L strategy: Talk with your child about what you both KNOW about the subject, what you WONDER and afterwards, what you’ve LEARNED.
With a complex language, like English, learning to sound out words is critical but not enough for learning how to read.
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