Experts generally agree that taking all opportunities to read books and other material aloud to children is the best preparation for their learning to read. The pleasures of being read to are far more likely to strengthen a child's desire to learn to read than are repetitions of sounds, alphabet drills, and deciphering uninteresting words.

We are doing earlier and earlier to children what we shouldn't do later.

All children, are born with the disposition to make sense of their experiences.

When a teacher tries to teach something to the entire class at the same time, chances are, one-third of the kids already know it; one-third will get it; and the remaining third won’t. So two-thirds of the children are wasting their time.

Communicative skills develop when there's something meaningful for children to communicate about-when they are taking an active role.

Science is a particular way of thinking about things.

Curriculum should help children make deeper and fuller understanding of their own experience