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RICHLAND -- Julie Dockter said the changes she saw in her preschoolers during the past school year were amazing. Students know their numbers and letters now. And though they appear to spend much of ...

People often assume that not a lot of writing gets done in kindergarten. They think it’s about reading out loud the alphabet, forming simple words, and counting. However, there is what we can call ...

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University of Canberra provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. We love our kids’ first drawings. They draw before they write, so their drawings seem somehow miraculous in those early ...