Prompt children to make or build something, using high-quality children's literature as a prompt.

Educators can connect, deepen, and extend children’s STE learning by drawing on their interests, knowledge, local contexts, and cultures.

Encourage children to make something different from a box or to use a box as the basis for a game.

In this article, we describe the five skills of academic conversations, the ways in which these skills promote literacy and language development, and the strategies teachers can use to foster, scaffold, and assess academic conversations among children.

Educators worked with families and communities to develop and implement a Meal Kit program.