Want to help your first-grader master math? Here are some of the skills your child will be learning in the classroom. Understand place value in one- and two-digit numbers. Understand that in two-digit ...

As the festive season approaches, it’s the perfect time to blend the joy of Christmas with the excitement of learning. That’s why I’ve put together this special collection of free printable Christmas ...

Kindergarten is the new first grade. That's the big finding from researchers at the University of Virginia who compared kindergarten and first-grade classrooms between 1998 and 2010, and found that ...

Early executive function (EF) skills reliably predict school readiness and future academic success. While children’s skills undergo rapid development during the transition to formal schooling, it ...

1 Cognitive Science and Assessment, Education, Culture, Cognition and Society, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg 2 Department for Educational Science and Psychology, Freie Universität ...

[Note: In this guest post, two renowned former kindergarten teachers who wrote about the extraordinary literacy successes of children in their classrooms (Feldgus & Cardonick, 1999) show how today’s ...