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Thinking Skills & Learning Styles for Ages 3-5

Thinking Skills & Learning Styles for Ages 3-5

 

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7 Ways to Promote Play and Prepare Your Toddler for School
Read and sing together. This will build her vocabulary, language, and communication skills. Count everything. Whether
Many Kinds of "Gifted"
Find out if your child is gifted even if he's not an academic superstar.
Think About It: Critical Thinking
Use these tips to encourage your child’s critical thinking skills.
How Children Explore Age-by-Age
Children are naturally curious about the world, and their powers of observation grow right along with them.
Preschool Problem-Solving
Preschoolers experiment with ideas to help them figure things out.
How Kids Learn to Concentrate
Learning to concentrate can depend on so many factors — age, stage, interest, and mood.
Easy as 1, 2, 3!
by Douglas Clements, PhD, Julie Sarama, PhD
Noticing, naming, and talking about numbers gives your child a head start in math.
5 Math Myths
by Douglas Clements, PhD, Julie Sarama, PhD
Math gets a bad rap. Here, we dispel some long-held beliefs about how children learn it.
Let's Investigate!
by Ellen Church
Spark interest in science with these seven steps to successful studies.
How Is Your Child Smart?
What teachers know about using multiple intelligences to help children learn.
How Your Child Learns to Problem-Solve
Your preschooler is figuring out what things are, why things are, and how things work. Here's what you can do to support this process.
Snacktime to Bedtime
Personal experiences and routines help preschoolers form an understanding of time.
Clock Connections
by Ellen Church
Kindergartners begin to recognize and become aware of time.
So Many Questions
by Bill Zimmerman
Encouraging your child to ask lots of questions helps her become a stronger thinker.

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