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Developmentally progressive instruction allows children to learn handwriting. An open-educational resource by literacy and writing experts supports instruction for kindergarten to Grade 3 children.
Engaging in purposeful, meaningful and strategic conversations with children can directly support children’s language comprehension, an important component of reading.
Parents in a study about the accessibility of French immersion programs discussed inadequate support for learning to read and feeling pressured to pay for expensive tutors.
A key way to support mental health and well-being is to support strong reading instruction especially early in children’s education.
Any activity that you and your child enjoy can be educational, sometimes with just small tweaks.
Handwriting is a learned skill that must be taught through direct, developmentally progressive, consistent and sustained instruction. Teachers will need professional development and resources.
Children’s books that feature Asian protagonists are rare. Two scholars decided to offer their own in their attempt to reduce racial prejudice.
Having a vast and deep vocabulary affords precision and nuance in making meaning of the world, and this is key to children becoming proficient readers.
Political will is key to tackling pupils’ literacy struggles.
These interventions have the potential to boost South African children’s literacy.
Sensitivity edits benefit copyright holders, who wish to keep less tasteful elements of the works they control out of the public eye.
Let Dahl’s books be seen for what they are: things of the past, to be appreciated as such.
How to make a ‘fortune teller’ or ‘chatterbox’ with children, and why the paper activity targets many developmental domains at once.
Given the clear importance of language skills for lifelong outcomes, it is critical to set children up early for language success.
It’s important to keep in mind public speaking has two parts to it: writing the speech and delivering it.
Cognitive skills related to early literacy can be nurtured this summer by engaging in activities that develop social-emotional skills and positive self-regulation.
Direct instruction matters in learning to read, but reading can’t happen unless children are supported in making connections to what they know and their experiences.
The COVID-19 pandemic provides parents with an opportunity to consider selecting books that address issues confronting children globally.
Children in an Oji-Cree northern First Nation are learning traditional teachings about ‘Namebin’ (suckers) and working on literacy skills at the same time through a community literacy project.
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Professor, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary
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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal
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Professor of Elementary Literacy, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, University of Toronto
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Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary
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Instructor, Faculty of Education, University of Windsor
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Associate Professor of Education, York University, Canada
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Professor of Psychology, Western University
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PhD student, Cognitive Psychology, University of Calgary
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Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Calgary
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Professor, Department of Education, Concordia University
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PhD Candidate, Concordia University
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Teacher and Northern Oral Language and Writing Through Play community research partner
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Windsor
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Senior Researcher, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of Law, University of Montana; Visiting Research Fellow, University of Oxford
