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How to know if you are predominantly a visual learner? How do you approach new things? If you have a new bookshelf to put together, what do you do first? If you read the directions before you build, you are visual. You'd ...... More »

There are three common learning styles. You might be auditory, and prefer to listen to gain information. Could you be visual, preferring to read or see information? Or are you kinesthetic, needing to touch and manipulate ...... More »

A study from UCLA has found that activities that get children, aged 2 months to 4 years, talking are most helpful to language acquisition. Even more than exposure to one-on-one reading, adult-child conversations have mor ...... More »

Seems like every class I've taught has had the problem. I've seen it when I've observed in my daughter's classes. At least one child  is picked on by another child. No - make that bullied by another child. The bullying c ...... More »

I recently wrote about ways to encourage children to sit still for a story or book reading. And today I read a discussion on LinkedIn about the vocabulary author's use when writing children's books. Both reminded me that ...... More »

How long can a little one sit to listen to a story? I have this discussion pretty frequently when I'm talking with parents about skills they're working on with their child. Usually it's a parent that really wants to enjo ...... More »

Today I took my daughter to a classmate's home for an end-of-school/summer fun party with all of the class. Since school has already been out for two weeks, they were starting to miss each other. They definitely had load ...... More »

As babies grow into toddlers, it helps to have another form of communication, rather than us doing all the talking for them like when they are infants. We found Baby Signs to be a great method. We focused on the signs fo ...... More »