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Early Advantage Child Care Curriculum
What is the Learning Without Tears Curriculum?
Learning Without Tears (LWT) Curriculum was developed by an occupational therapist in 1977 and evolved into a program incorporating play-based learning and active participation to help young learners.
The concepts used in this curriculum help get children ready for kindergarten by teaching math, science, reading, and social studies. By incorporating a variety of tools such as hands on activities and educational digital apps, your child will learn school-ready skills in a variety of ways.
Why is Learning Without Tears Important?
Learning Without Tears use of multi-sensory activities, games, and hands-on exercises encourages children to develop their language and literacy skills in a way that is enjoyable and meaningful to them.
Learning Without Tears Curriculum
How Does Learning Without Tears Benefit Children?
Learning Without Tears provides teachers and families with tools and strategies to help children succeed in language and literacy development. This approach has been recognized as a leader in the field of early childhood education and has been cited in numerous research studies as a highly effective method of promoting the development of pre-kindergarten and kindergarten age children
Learning Without Out Tears teaches learning through:
- Learning through play
- Multisensory activities
- Educational digital apps
- Expert-backed, research-based, curriculum proven to help children prepare for school.
- Students build pre-writing and emergent writing skills.
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