New research finds preschool teachers' use of sophisticated vocabulary can predict fourth-grade reading comprehension and word recognition. Preschool teachers' use of sophisticated vocabulary and ...

Dr. Sara Bode (far right) high fives Juri Sleet, 4, after she and Crystal Webb, a kindergarten readiness coordinator, talk with Sleet's grandmother, Quintina Davis (left), about the literacy screening ...

ELKHART COUNTY, Ind. (WSBT) — There are more affordable options for high-quality preschool in our area. This fall, Concord Community Schools will offer full day preschool classes in each of its four ...

Step into an American preschool classroom today and you are likely to be bombarded with what we educators call a print-rich environment, every surface festooned with alphabet charts, bar graphs, word ...

Children who attend preschool enter kindergarten with greater skills than those who don't, but that advantage is nearly halved by the end of the year as their counterparts quickly begin to catch up, ...

Everybody is talking about high quality preschools but few folks know what high quality preschool looks like—especially for literacy development. The following checklist can be used to evaluate ...

A new study conducted by Education Development Center, Inc. and SRI International demonstrates measurable improvement in a preschool child's literacy skill development when participating in a ...

Many young children have some degree of farsightedness—an ability to see objects far away more clearly than objects that are close up. Health providers are divided on whether moderate farsightedness ...

Little Pathfinders, a new Ramona preschool, has opened at the site of the Thomsen Learning Center preschool, which was closed by the state last summer. Little Pathfinders is owned by Sandra Reyes, who ...

I worried about kindergarten readiness, but chose an intergenerational preschool that pairs kids with dementia patients.