by Dr. Jody Sherman LeVos | Aug 25, 2025 | Core Skills
Do you want to help build your child’s vocabulary and improve their reading comprehension? Learning root words is a great place to start because they serve as the foundation for many other words. This guide will explain exactly what root words are and when your child...
by Dr. Jody Sherman LeVos | Aug 10, 2025 | Content, Core Skills
You want your child to become a confident reader. One of the best ways to do that is to help them learn high-frequency words. These words are the ones your child will see in nearly every book they open. Because they’re so common, high-frequency words provide the...
by Dr. Jody Sherman LeVos | Jun 20, 2025 | Content, Core Skills
Children whose parents read them one book a day hear over 290,000 words by age five. Reading and exposure to words are critical for both language and cognitive growth. Looking at books with your child, even before they can communicate verbally, lays critical...
by Dr. Jody Sherman LeVos | Jun 16, 2025 | Things to Do
Group games give kids the opportunity to practice important social skills, like communication and cooperation. These types of games are part of communication and collaboration, two of the 6Cs at the heart of the Begin Approach to helping kids thrive. We’ve curated 16...
by Dr. Jody Sherman LeVos | Feb 26, 2025 | Content, Core Skills
Adjectives have enormous power for kids. Whether it’s a two-year-old learning what “small” means, a four-year-old sorting the world into things that are “interesting” or not, or a five-year-old discovering what it means to be “clever,” using adjectives opens a kid’s...
