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Timeless Practices

Infant reading a book

INFANT - 3 YEARS

Ninety percent (90%) of the human brain has completed growth by age five. Engaged families develop the foundation for thinking & learning through play.

  • Talk with your child as you hold & cuddle.
  • Develop language through appropriate word-phrase exchanges.
  • Read to your child each day.
  • Introduce toys for your child to grasp & hold.
  • Offer age appropriate choices.
  • Introduce & share the sounds of music
  • Encourage age appropriate independence-making choices.
  • Vary the environment & call attention to the changes in routines
  • Praise & acknowledge your child for exploring.
  • Reward sharing & thoughtfulness.

PreK - KINDERGARTEN

Readiness - Prompt reasoning, literacy, & language development.

School readiness is a measure of how prepared a child is to succeed in school, cognitively, socially, & emotionally. Below are some inclusive suggestions for preparing  PreK-Kindergarten learners for school.

Kindergarten student reading book
  • Read with your child each day.
  • Ask age appropriate questions about materials read.
  • Introduce new ideas-ask opinions.
  • Motivate reasoning & problem solving.
  • Praise and reward critical thinking and actions.
  • Use voice & body language in response to questions and comments.
  • Wait for an age appropriate amount of time to hear comments.
  • Grow vocabulary. Child asks-What color is the dog? Parent responds the small dog is brown.
  • Motivate decision making.
  • Create opportunities to describe-increases vocabulary choices.
Kindergarten student reading book

PreK - KINDERGARTEN

Readiness - Prompt reasoning, literacy, & language development.

School readiness is a measure of how prepared a child is to succeed in school, cognitively, socially, & emotionally. Below are some inclusive suggestions for preparing  PreK-Kindergarten learners for school.

 

  • Read with your child each day.
  • Ask age appropriate questions about materials read.
  • Introduce new ideas-ask opinions.
  • Motivate reasoning & problem solving.
  • Praise and reward critical thinking and actions.
  • Use voice & body language in response to questions and comments.
  • Wait for an age appropriate amount of time to hear comments.
  • Grow vocabulary. Child asks-What color is the dog? Parent responds the small dog is brown.
  • Motivate decision making.
  • Create opportunities to describe-increases vocabulary choices.
Children with gadgets

FIRST - THIRD GRADE

Improve Understanding Boost Critical Thinking-Emphasize Literacy & Language Development

Critical Thinking is defined as the ability to think clearly & rationally about what to do or believe. Written below are some fundamental comments and questions that could be used to motivate and nurture cognitive development, literacy & language development.

  • Read to-with your child each day.

  • Ask your child to explain phrases, words, & expressions.

  • Ask your child to retell the story-information read.

  • Ask your child to make a prediction-say what they think will happen next.

  • Have your child compare-how the story character is similar and/or different from you?

  • Encourage looking ahead. We have a prediction for rain tomorrow if the rain is falling-which jacket will you choose to wear?

  • Teach summarizing-ask what do you think might be a short way to retell the story-information read?

  • Ask Why questions-accept age appropriate responses.

  • Provide a variety of creative development materials-nurture creativity.

  • Have high critical thinking-responding expectations for learners-raise the bar a reasonable distance each time you see growth.