Reading at bedtime entertains and relaxes your child, helps to build his or her imagination, makes bedtime something to look forward to, and builds a lifelong enjoyment of reading. But most of all, it’s an opportunity for quiet cuddle time with your son or daughter. In honor of this important tradition, bedtime classics both old and new are featured in these recommended books for children ages 0-9. Sweet dreams!
You don’t need a passport to explore the world! This collection of recommended books for kids ages 0-9 brings the world to you. Among them is the true story of a Chinese American who becomes a matador in Spain as well as a book that reveals all the things first graders around the world do with their lost tooth. It’s a small world after all!
This article explains how to consider your child’s present levels of academic performance and use baseline data to develop goals and objectives for a individualized education program.
When a doctor develops a treatment plan for a sick child, the doctor uses objective data from diagnostic tests. Your child’s individualized education program is similar to a medical treatment plan, and you need objective tests to know that your child is acquiring reading, writing, and arithmetic skills.
Individualized education program (IEP) goals cannot be broad statements about what a child will accomplish. Goals that cannot be measured are non-goals. Learn how to help the IEP team devise specific, measurable, realistic goals.
Sneed B. Collard III is the author of more than 30 children’s books about science, nature, and the environment. With a background in biology, Collard introduces aspects of the natural world to children in a way that is accessible. His book topics range from beaks to wings to cloud forests to animal dads. Through his books and school visits, Collard encourages young people to see science as an integrated part of their lives — and not as some complicated school subject removed from day-to-day life. “If I’ve achieved anything in my career,” he says, “it’s the hope that I’ve written books that are being picked up by people who have never picked up a science book before.”
What do short days, long nights, cold weather, and December holidays mean? Winter is here! With it comes snow — waiting for it, hoping for it, playing in it, and listening for it. Even it doesn’t snow where you live, you can enjoy anticipating snow, playing in it, and even seeing its colors in these and other books!
Learn the critical social communication milestones for babies and toddlers, from 7-24 months of age. These milestones cover five developmental domains — play, language, social interaction, emotional regulation, and self-directed learning.
