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Best New Toys to Develop Speech and Language

Apr 30, 2014 | 3-6 year-olds, 6-8 year-olds, 8 years and up, Language, Strategies to Encourange Language Development, Toys

It's spring--I think! New flowers, new buds, and new toys. I have tested so many new products for the PAL Award in these past few weeks that I want...

Happy Easter With Jan Brett’s “The Easter Egg”

Apr 19, 2014 | 3-6 year-olds, 6-8 year-olds, 8 years and up, Books, Strategies to Encourange Language Development

Happy Easter and Passover to all! The rain has cancelled our Easter egg hunt but that means we have had a morning reading books from Chima and Lego...

uKloo Riddle Edition Treasure Hunt Game Great For Fun Reading Practice

Apr 18, 2014 | 6-8 year-olds, 8 years and up, Reading, Strategies to Encourange Language Development

I've been visiting my grandchildren this week and several of them are learning to read. It is like magic to watch them suddenly be able to read...

Encouraging Early Readers Over the Summer

Apr 15, 2014 | 3-6 year-olds, 6-8 year-olds, 8 years and up, Books, Reading, Strategies to Encourange Language Development

We just returned from a trip to Barnes and Noble with 3 of our grandchildren and we had our usual fun outing reading new and classic picture books...

Articulation Therapy When You Forget Your Word Lists

Apr 10, 2014 | 3-6 year-olds, 6-8 year-olds, Articulation, Strategies to Encourange Language Development

Today was one of those days when I was packing up so many items for each child I was seeing in the afternoon that I forgot my iPad or word lists for...

$Teaching Math Vocabulary with New “Math Explosion” by The Young Scientists Club$