WASHINGTON (AP) — Celebrate your child’s scribbles. A novel experiment shows that even before learning their ABCs, youngsters start to recognize that a written word symbolizes language in a way a ...

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — Dozens of children's books are in Maddy Carpenter's kindergarten classroom at Cochran Primary School in Williamsport. But one book stands out, written by Mrs. Carpenter and her ...

Kids of all ages love playing with iPads, and it often amazes parent how even the youngest children can pick one up and be immediately in tune with the device. But it helps if the apps they are ...

Learning the alphabet isn’t always as easy as A, B, C, but making it fun definitely helps. This adorable stringing letters craft does just that. From the book 100 Fun & Easy Learning Games for Kids: ...

The idea: At some point, children learn that a squiggle on a page represents something, and then that the squiggle we call text has a more specific meaning than what we call a drawing. “Dog,” for ...