Children's aggressive behavior and reading difficulties
during early elementary school years are risk factors for adolescent problem behaviors such as delinquency, academic failure, and substance use.
That is, in addition to their LBW / PT status, children with a difficult temperament who experience family conflict
during early elementary school years have poorer adaptive functioning than LBW / PT children without these additional risks.
He stuck with Grape - Nuts during
our early elementary school years so Mom only needed to stop by the Lucky's down the street for the entire family's weekly groceries, but when I graduated to middle school, Dad started driving past Trader Joe's on his way home from work too.
School transitions were incredibly challenging for us during the day care and
early elementary school years, and until recently, our forays into extracurriculars and camps were either epic failures (meaning, mission aborted) or ridden with anxiety.
The preschool and
early elementary school years are sometimes marred with exaggerated fears, odd anxieties, nightmares, night terrors, and other evidences of insecurity that can make the most confident of parents feel a combination of dismay, frustration, worry, and failure.
What many people don't know is that during the preschool and
early elementary school years, signing can help your child learn to read and write.
The study, published Wednesday in The American Journal of Family Therapy, found students in
the early elementary school years are getting significantly more homework than is recommended by education leaders, in some cases nearly three times as much homework as is recommended.
The radio piece is a complement to Mongeau's EdSource Today story on how the Common Core math standards are changing what's required of students and teachers in
the early elementary school years.
Access to reading materials is crucial, of course, but according to our research, that's not enough, especially in
the early elementary school years.
During
the early elementary school years, children develop important skills and approaches to learning that are critical for ongoing school success.
If you did, your picture would match up with those drawn by many students when asked to do the same, even in
their early elementary school years.
Establishing the conditions that promote educational achievement for children is critical, beginning with quality prenatal care and continuing into
the early elementary school years.