early childhood education

This week, it is my pleasure to introduce you to author Wenda Shurety as she discusses her new picture book Eva’s Imagination. I especially enjoy Wenda’s book for its focus...

In the first week of February, celebrations include World Read Aloud Day, Children’s Mental Health Week and Chinese New Year. Readilearn has lessons ready to assist you with each of...

Wrap up a book for a gift that gives more Reading and books combine to form one of life’s greatest pleasures and one of life’s best avenues for advancement and...

One of my favourite read-aloud books is The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. The influence of poetry is obvious in this compelling modern fairy tale that begins as it might...

This week I have enormous pleasure in introducing you to Katrin Dreiling illustrator of The World’s Worst Pirate, written by Michelle Worthington. The World’s Worst Pirate is a captivating book...

Sometimes we expect that all we have to do for children to make friends is to put them in close proximity to other children. We may see it happen at...

The readilearn Bullfrog’s Billabong suite of cross-curricular resources can be used as the foundation for planning a week’s reading instruction including lessons with the whole class and small groups and...

In Australia, NAIDOC Week is celebrated around the country each July. The acronym NAIDOC stands for National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee. The theme of this year’s celebration, which...

Teaching about living things has an important place in early childhood classrooms. In the science curriculum in their first few years of school, children learn What is a living thing...

Teaching phonics and letter-sound relationships is an important part of literacy education in early childhood classrooms. To be fluent readers and writers we need to understand the relationship that exists...

Parents often approach teachers wanting to know what they should teach their children or how to prepare their children for school—should they teach them the letter names or sounds or...

The development of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) skills can be encouraged in children, even before they start school, by parents who are attuned to opportunities for learning. I’ve...