Research shows that the arts support children’s development through visual, aural, language, and movement modes, offering a multisensory foundation for communication and learning. In early-years ...

Before the pandemic, more than 40% of new internet users were children. Estimates now suggest that children’s screen time has surged by 60% or more with children 12 and under spending upward of five ...

Language skills are essential to a child’s ability to communicate and develop. These skills enable children to engage with other people and learn from their surroundings and in the classroom. Language ...

Just yesterday, it seems, our teachers had blackboards and overhead projectors while we scrawled on paper using pencils. Today, teachers write on digital whiteboards, save their wisdom electronically, ...

At Dos Puentes Elementary School, “red time” is for speaking Spanish and “blue time” is for speaking English. Teachers also support students as they shift between languages. Credit: Tara García ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — In Ivonne Kendrick’s classroom at Houston Elementary School, 3-year-olds sit cross-legged in a circle, listening to their teacher sing about the fall season. Houston is a ...

Students develop the foundation for lifelong reading skills in early elementary school, and a new neuroscience study suggests they may be particularly hindered in that learning by background noise.

A classroom library with 100 high-quality books costs about R20 000. Over five years, serving 175 learners, this amounts to ...

Can your 5-year-old distinguish between information provided by pictures and information provided by words? Is your 9-year-old able to explain how an author uses evidence to support a claim? Can your ...

Chair of Indigenous Linguistics and Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language , Australian National University The question of what language(s) to teach Indigenous ...