Category: Graphic Tip Sheets
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Trauma-Informed Care in the Classroom
Teachers can support students who have experienced trauma using these strategies.
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Talking to Your Child’s Teacher
Do you wonder how to build a good relationship with your child’s teacher? Here are some words to help you connect.
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Supporting Children with Limited Verbal Skills
These strategies are helpful to all children but are particularly helpful for those with limited verbal skills.
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Keeping Healthy and Safe: Play Time
Young children are learning that sometimes, sharing toys and supplies is not helpful. Adults can support them with simple explanations, visual supports, and practice.
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Keeping Healthy and Safe: Fighting Germs
Young children are learning the importance of clean hands and clean environments. Adults can support them with simple explanations, visual supports, and practice.
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Keeping Healthy and Safe: Smaller Group Sizes
Young children are attending programs that may have smaller groups or different groups. Adults can support them with simple explanations, visual supports, and practice.
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Keeping Healthy and Safe: Arriving at School or Childcare
Young children are learning new procedures for arriving at school or childcare. Adults can support them with simple explanations, visual supports, and practice.
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Keeping Healthy and Safe: Face Coverings
Young children are learning to wear face coverings and to see others wearing them. Adults can support them with simple explanations, visual supports, and practice.
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Keeping Healthy and Safe: Physical Distancing
Young children are learning to sit or stand six 6 feet apart from each other, when possible. Adults can support them with simple explanations, visual supports, and practice.
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Returning to Childcare During COVID-19
Families returning to childcare during the COVID-19 situation may have many questions and concerns.
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Positive Guidance for Young Children: Be Thoughtful
Young children are learning to manage their behaviors and feelings. Your responses matter to children in these moments. Sometimes adults need to stop behaviors that are unsafe or extremely disruptive and help children understand how to behave appropriately.
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Positive Guidance for Young Children: Take a Break and Calm Down
Young children are learning to manage their behavior and feelings. At times, they may be “out of control” and need an adult to help them calm down and learn how to express their emotions in appropriate ways.
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Positive Guidance for Young Children: Plan Ahead
Young children are curious and actively explore the world.
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Positive Guidance for Young Children: Be Consistent
Young children are learning to manage their behaviors and feelings. They may need many reminders of what appropriate behavior looks like. Clear directions from adults in a calm, firm tone of voice help children know what to do.
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Keeping Track of Important Information
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Rights of Families Experiencing Homelessness
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Things to Do While You’re Waiting: Math Is Everywhere
Keep children engaged when you have to wait
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Things to Do While You’re Waiting: Music and Movement
Move to the beat. Sing along. Listen. Create sounds.
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Keep Young Children Safe in the Car
Car accidents are the leading cause of death for young children in the United States. Remember these key rules to keep children safe:
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Get Ready to Read
Set your young child up for reading and writing by building knowledge, skills, and habits that create a strong foundation for future literacy.
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Get Them to School Every Day
Preschool is the ideal time to stress the importance of consistent on-time attendance and encourage strong attendance habits.
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Going to Kindergarten?
Getting required health checks, practicing key skills, and visiting your new school can help your child make a smooth transition.
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Tech Time for Young Children
Here are some ways families and caregivers can find a healthy balance with technology and electronic media in their daily lives.
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Tech Time for Infants and Toddlers
Here are some ways families and caregivers can find a healthy balance with technology and electronic media in their lives.
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Healthy Children Eat Right
Good nutrition is basic for supporting preschoolers’ healthy growth while avoiding obesity.
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Work and Play Together
Here are some ways you can help your child learn to get along with others.
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Talk Together
Everyday conversations are opportunities to help your child learn new words.
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Talk, Listen, and Learn
Young children are developing their ability to express themselves through language. You can help your child build vocabulary and conversation skills by talking together.
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Supporting Adult-Child Relationships
Young children thrive when the adults around them show they care.
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Sorting, Classifying, and Organizing
Sorting and organizing things into sets and groups is an important math skill for young children to develop.
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Read and Write Together
Understanding stories and information that is read aloud is an important skill for young children.
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Making Sense of Numbers
Help your child discover the mathematical world by finding opportunities to bring numbers into conversations and play.
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Learning by Listening to Language
These games will help your child begin to demonstrate an understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds.
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Keep Up the Good Work
Here are some ways you can help them stay with tasks and try hard to complete them even when the job is tough.
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Investigate Together
Encouraging your child’s exploration and wonder helps build a strong foundation for early learning.
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Feelings Are Fantastic
Children are learning the words to express their feelings and how to show feelings in appropriate ways. Here are some ways you can help them to be successful as they learn these important skills.
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Discover Shapes in Many Places
Understanding shapes is an important mathematical skill for young children to develop.
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Discover Letters and Words
You are helping your child develop early reading skills as you talk to your child about the words you see all around you.
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Counting Up, Down, and All Around!
Understanding how much or how many is an important skill for young children to develop. Help your child learn about number quantities by exploring the mathematical world around you!
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Things to Do While You’re Waiting: Get Physical
Sometimes hugging is the best physical activity.
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Things to Do While You’re Waiting: Art Is All Around
Keep children engaged when you have to wait.
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Play With Your Toddler—Indoors
Turn off the screens! Get moving with your toddler.
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Things to Do While You’re Waiting: Curious Young Scientists
Keep children engaged when you have to wait.
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Read with Your Toddler!
Making reading a part of family life will help your child be ready to do well in school.