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  • What Does Literacy Look Like In Early Childhood?by Krysty Krywko - Monday, Dec 19th 2011Literacy is something that begins to happen long before a child enters a formal early childhood setting. However, as the academic testing movement reaches further and further down the grades, literacy is often reduced to the components of reading and ... More >>
  • Learning To Listenby Krysty Krywko - Tuesday, Jan 17th 2012Somewhere along the line, literacy has become reduced to how well a child performs on a standardized reading test. However, literacy is more than learning how to decode words on a page, it’s also about how a child acquires and uses information, and ... More >>
  • Red Flag Behaviors and Social/Emotional Developmentby Krysty Krywko - Tuesday, Jan 10th 2012It is in the early childhood classroom where children begin to learn to work cooperatively with other children and adults, assume various social roles, and to deal with their full range of emotions and how to express these feelings in age-appropriate ... More >>
  • Grounding Experiences in Language: Expanding a Child’s Worldby Krysty Krywko - Monday, Jan 23rd 2012Children’s language development is dependent upon exploration and their growing ability to understanding the world they inhabit. It is when children learn to listen, question, and to formulate and test their own assumptions that learning occurs. By ... More >>
  • The Home-School Connectionby Krysty Krywko - Wednesday, Jan 05th 2011A young child’s entry into an early childhood program, whether it is for a few hours or for the entire day, signifies their first significant transition to a more formal setting then their home environment. As educators, we talk a great deal about ... More >>