Pathways to literacy for multilingual children A new paper digs into how multilingual children learn to read in different languages by Dwyer Gunn / July 29, 2019
Measuring the tides of talk What talk means for children’s cognitive development by Katrina d’Apice / June 3, 2019
Learning new words through play Research suggests that children learn vocabulary just as effectively through play as through shared book reading by Aisha Schnellmann / May 22, 2019
How children use the power of prediction to learn new words Children are very fast trackers of structures in their language by Meeri Kim / February 25, 2019
When should I start reading to my baby? It’s never too early Reaching parents during pregnancy, a stage of information gathering, could be a powerful way of improving early literacy by Jack Graham / February 6, 2019
Questions provide an opportunity to promote a child’s learning By paying attention to children's questions, we learn what they understand about a topic by Caroline Morano / February 4, 2019
Bilingual at school Advantage or disadvantage for learning? by Annie Brookman-Byrne / January 21, 2019
How do deaf or hard of hearing children learn to read? Tailoring literacy instruction depending on a child's communication mode. Blog post and video in American Sign Language by James R. Booth / January 16, 2019
The importance of faces for infants’ learning Just like books are educational tools used to promote language development, faces are also educational tools during the first year of life by Lisa Scott / October 24, 2018
How can children (or computers) learn abstract relations? Around the age of 6, a child starts to understand what a synonym or an antonym is. But how? A new computational model offers explanations by Keith J. Holyoak / September 26, 2018
Why do children learn the words they do? Linguists Nivedita Mani and Lena Ackermann looked at the factors that influence variability in early word learning by Meeri Kim / August 27, 2018
Young children sleep to learn Memories and knowledge learned throughout the day are strengthened during sleep, an effect that’s controlled by neurons in the brain by Mallory Locklear / August 13, 2018
