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Phonological Awareness versus Phonemic Awareness, what’s the difference? For the sake of this blog post, we are going to talk about the speech aspect of these two terms. What’s a phoneme? Before we jump into the definitions, we need to talk about the building blocks of words. A phoneme is
Piaget, Vygotsky, and Smilansky. These are the top researchers (along with Parten) cited when understanding how play impacts cognitive development in early childhood. Vygotsky’s research says children are born with basic cognitive functions and build/grow their cognitive abilities through social interactions and adult experiences. He believes talking to children and
What is play? What are the different stages of play? The oxford language dictionary defines play as [a verb] “engagement in an activity for enjoyment and recreation rather than serious or practical purposes” and [a noun] “an activity engaged in for enjoyment and recreation, especially by children”. The different stages of play are