Reference Desk
- Is My Child On Track?
- Kindergarten Readiness
- Learning To Read
- Types of Schools
- Learning Personalities
- Standards and Testing
- Gifted Children
- The Early Years (3-5)
- The Middle Years (6-12)
- The Teen Years (13-18)
- Parent-School Connection
- Your Parenting Style
- Keeping Your Kids Healthy
- Extracurricular Activities
- Life Skills
- Thinking About College
- Special Needs
Is My Child On Track? |
As a parent, there are many decisions to be made and changes that occur when your child begins preschool. During the preschool years, your child is making cognitive advancements, growing socially and emotionally, and developing language and literacy skills. Read on for information about this important time in a child’s development.
Screening Tools and Developmental Delays
- Assessing the Development of Preschoolers
- Child Development and Public Health
- Facts about Developmental Screening Tools
- Developmental Screening
- Developmental Disabilities
- Dyslexia: What to Look for
General Development
- Preschoolers Activities
- The Wonderful Three-Year-Old
- Child Development Guide: 3-4 Years
- Developmental Milestones: Age - 4 years (Medline Plus)
- The Fantastic Four-Year-Old
- Developmental Milestones : Age - 5 Years (Medline Plus)
- Growth and Development, Ages 4-5
- The Preschool Years (Ages 4 and 5)
- Child Development Guide: 4-5 Years
- Developmental Milestones
- What's the Right Time to ...
Cognitive
- Cognitive Development: The First Five Years
- Cognitive Development: By the End of 3, 4, and 5 Years
- Art Milestones: What's Typical at Each Stage of Life
- What It Means to Be a Kinesthetic Learner
- How Preschoolers Think
Physical Growth
Motor and Movement
- Hand and Finger Skills: By the End of 3, 4, and 5 Years
- Motor Development: The First Five Years
- Movement: By the End of 3, 4, and 5 Years
- Early Art Exploration
Social Emotional
- Assessing Young Children's Social Competence
- Social and Emotional Development: By the End of 3, 4, and 5 Years
- Social and Emotional Growth: The First Five Years
- Social Graces: What to Expect in Preschool
- Creativity in Young Children
- When Your Child's New Friend is Imaginary
- "I Can Do It Myself": Encouraging Independence in Young Children
- Play: It’s the Way Young Children Learn
- The Importance of Playdates
- Even Preschoolers Sweat the Small Stuff
- Boys and Guns: Okay to Play?
- How to Lick a Thumb-sucker
- Dealing with Separation Anxiety
- Gender Differences: Preschool
- Talking Safety to Your Preschooler
Language
- Language and Communication: The First Five Years
- Language: By the End of 3, 4, and 5 Years
- Typical Language Accomplishments for Children, Birth to Age 6
- Young Children's Oral Language Development
- Language Milestones
- The Low-down on Stuttering
- Help for Speech Development: Preschool
Academics
- Child Development Tracker: Science From Age 3 to 4
- Child Development Tracker: Science From Age 4 to 5
- Child Development Tracker: Mathematics From Age 3 to 4
- Child Development Tracker: Mathematics From Age 4 to 5
- Child Development Tracker: Literacy From Age 3 to 4
- Child Development Tracker: Literacy From Age 4 to 5
- The Early Reader Isn't Always the Bookworm
- Don't Cover the Pictures!
- Can TV Teach Your Child to Read?
