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Addressing Conflict

Best Writing Practices for Emerging Bilingual Students

Creating Meaningful Writing Experiences for Children

Current Practices for Teaching Letter and Sound Knowledge in Preschool Including Strategies for Improving Instruction in These Areas

Preschool is an important period for learning letters, a key skill for future reading success. This resource provides research-based strategies to promote letter knowledge by answering common questions…

Developing Language Through Science

Curiosity is natural for young children. Through questions and observations, adults can promote children’s science concept development and language development.

Developing Social Knowledge to Support Reading Comprehension in Elementary Students With ASD

Introduces four strategies to help students with Autism Spectrum Disorder improve their reading comprehension skills.

Emerging Bilingual Children’s Writing Development: Similarities and Differences

Writing among emerging bilingual children involves language knowledge in the home language and English, as well as cultural knowledge.

Incorporating Scaffolding in a Book-Reading Lesson

Scaffolding means providing just enough support for a child to complete a task independently.

Infusing Physical Activity into Early Childhood Classrooms: Guidance for Best Practices

Integrating Writing into the Early Childhood Curriculum: A Frame for Intentional and Meaningful Writing Experiences

Lesson Plan: Our Senses and Forms of Energy

Have students explore how they feel when sunlight hits their skin or what they hear when music comes on. Once students start asking questions, guide them through experiments…

Literacy Today: Designing Writing Experiences

Not Just Handwriting and Spelling: Assessing Early Composing Skills

Steps for supporting composition: plan, write, and review.

Partnering with Families to Use Screen Time for Supporting Early Language and Literacy

Technology use is rapidly increasing, creating questions from families and teachers about screen time limits, technology’s use in education, and how to support children's learning with educational apps.

Strategies for Promoting Peer Interaction for Children with Autism

Teachers who facilitate peer interaction among children with autism and their typically developing peers through adult guidance, modeling, and addressing child questions promote children’s language and social learning.

Supporting Social Play of Preschoolers With and Without Autism: A Collaborative Approach for Special Educators and Speech Language Pathologists

Play is essential to social development for all children, including those with disabilities. This resource provides strategies to promote play in the classroom based on research.

Supporting Writing in Various Centers at Preschool Classrooms: Research Findings

Early writing is foundational for later reading and writing development.

To Speak or Not to Speak My Language

Developmentally appropriate practice includes fostering children’s home languages as well as school languages through cultural sharing, home-language activities, and opportunities to communicate with peers who speak the same…

Using a Three-Step Strategy to Support Preschoolers’ Communication

Introduces an evidence-based, three-step process teachers can use to support children with little or no functional communication skills.

Using the Scientific Method to Guide Learning: An Integrated Approach to Early Childhood Curriculum

Provides research-based strategies to integrate the scientific method into early childhood science experiences.