More Than ABCs: Building the Critical Thinking Skills Your Child Needs for Literacy Success

Reading is about more than just ABCs.  When sharing a story with your child, remember that their story understanding is just as important for later abilities to read and write their own stories. Critical thinking skills allow children to use what is beyond the pages to understand the stories they enjoy.  Learn more about how to help your child get the most out of reading. 

 

The Hanen Centre - More Than ABCs: Building the Critical Thinking Skills Your Child Needs for Literacy Success

Missed preschool opportunity

Preschool is a wonderful time for diverse learning opportunities.  But is the focus on academics overpowering some important life skills?   Executive function skills, including paying attention, setting goals, planning, and organizing, are a critical foundation for academic skills and can influence a child's classroom behaviour in the future.  Could the narrowed focus on learning things like letters and numbers mean missing this key opportunity to teach other important life skills?  

USA Today: We're missing a big preschool opportunity

The E's and P's to Build Critical Thinking

Critical thinking skills like problem solving, predicting, and projecting can grow with language, and can impact literacy too!  As a child's thinking is encouraged to expand, their language framework expands along with it to support these new ideas and interpretations of the world.  These same skills are called to action to understand the meaning of a book - reading between the lines, drawing on experiences, and making inferences enable them to understand things not explicitly written in the text.  Learn the E's and P's to easily encourage the development of your child's critical thinking skills.

The Hanen Centre - Build Children's Critical Thinking Skills with the E's and P's