New research suggests we shouldn't group kids by ability, because, in that situation, children with the poorest language skills lose ground Children going to preschool often learn as much from each ...

A few simple changes in how parents and teachers read aloud to preschoolers could help increase their reading skills later on. A new study suggests that pointing out letters and words, showing capital ...

Children from the poorer strata of society begin life not only with material disadvantages but cognitive ones. Decades of research have confirmed this, including a famous 1995 finding by psychologists ...

The debate on how to teach early reading has raged for a century. But for the last few decades, the cognitive science has been clear: Teaching young kids how to crack the code—teaching systematic ...

Researchers studied verb learning in 3-year-olds, finding that those who napped after learning new verbs had a better understanding of the words when tested 24 hours later. Research has shown that ...

Naptime is important to infants in sustaining new learning. New research suggests that naps could have the same beneficial role in language learning of preschool children. The study, carried out at ...

Learning to read fluently requires hundreds of hours of practice. Some children happily sit and read for hours, but others (especially those with ADHD or dyslexia) cannot. Parents and teachers often ...

Trying to find a good video for your little ones to watch on YouTube can be a challenge. Even if you limit the search to YouTube Kids, there’s so much out there. How can you determine what’s good and ...

A pervasive idea assumes that young children can absorb new languages with minimal effort, but it turns out that the science is more complicated. By Lindsay Patterson This story was originally ...