In cooperative learning, you have a purposeful, meaningful, and authentic context in which children can sharpen their communicative skills.

Provide lots of opportunities for children's natural curiosity to manifest itself. With very young children, our role is one of supporter and guide.

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.

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

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

In both cooperative learning and project work, the teacher encourages children to talk to one another. This helps them pay attention to each other's efforts and ideas. Children take to these kinds of exchanges very readily, but the teacher really needs to encourage this interaction.

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