Turn your preschooler's need for sleep into a learning experience with these suggestions from Reading Rockets.

Play the "What Am I?" guessing game — a fun and simple way to help develop your child's language development, listening, and problem solving skills.

Understanding Physical Development in Preschoolers

It's easy to track your preschooler's growth by measuring his or her height with a yardstick, but how can you know if they are learning and mastering age-appropriate early reading skills?

As your child's parent and first teacher, you are the ideal person to observe and gather information about whether your child is developing skills appropriate for a preschooler.

In "Understanding Beginning Reading Development in Preschoolers," we'll discuss the early reading skills your preschool-aged child should be learning, provide you with helpful tips to help encourage reading at home, and share what you can do to help them on their journey to becoming a competent reader.

The Transitioning to Kindergarten Toolkit includes great information for helping your child get ready to start kindergarten.

This "Physical Development" excerpt from the toolkit provides parents important milestones to look for as their child grows, along with offering several ways to encourage their child's physical development.

Download and read "The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children."

The paper gives a "big picture look" at how early intervention can lead to more productive and skilled adults in the future.

For more information about interventions, visit the Recognition and Response and the RTI Action Network web sites today!

Try these fun activities to help your students grow, learn and succeed!

Turn your students into globe trotters with Reading is Fundamental's "Around the World in Eighty Books" activity.

Help build phonemic awareness with Reading Rocket's "Meet the Families" activity.  It's a great way for students to see how words that look alike can also sound alike.

Read "Math Disabilities" on the PBS Parents web site to learn about the cumulative nature of math disabilities.

In this article you'll find information about the important role that skills such as number facts, computation, knowledge transfer, the language of math, and spatial organization play in your child's learning.

You'll also find information about the warning signs that may indicate a math disability in your child.

The Obama Administration has released its blueprint for reforming the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) (currently known as No Child Left Behind).

The blueprint challenges states to embrace educational standards that would put America on a path to global leadership by adopting college- and career-ready standards and reward schools for producing dramatic gains in student achievement.

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