WASHINGTON (AP) -- Celebrate your child's scribbles. A novel experiment shows that even before learning their ABCs, youngsters start to recognize that a written word symbolizes language in a way a ...

In 2024, the Chillicothe Gazette wrote a series of stories going through the alphabet and giving historic facts about each ...

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — Dozens of children's books are in Maddy Carpenter's kindergarten classroom at Cochran Primary School in Williamsport. But one book stands out, written by Mrs. Carpenter and her ...

Like many 7- and 8-year-old girls online, Emily and Kayla Strickland are regulars to Barbie.com and the virtual world Webkinz. But much to their mom's delight, the sisters also have been longtime fans ...

The idea: At some point, children learn that a squiggle on a page represents something, and then that the squiggle we call text has a more specific meaning than what we call a drawing. “Dog,” for ...