This Week @ AOS – Episode 5

A lot rests on a child's pre-kindergarten experience. During the first five years of a child's life, their brain is developing faster than at any other time in life. This period is a prime time for laying the groundwork for cognitive, social, and emotional growth....

As a parent, you want your child to absorb, truly understand, and apply information. That's the heart of inquiry-based learning, a teaching method encouraging children to ask questions, explore their environment, and build knowledge through investigation. Unlike...

When your child begins learning to read in kindergarten, you'll want to focus on phonemic awareness and phonics to boost decoding. But what about comprehension? The good news is that good decoding improves your child's comprehension. When they aren't stumbling over...