Finding the missing piece: Blocks, puzzles, and shapes fuel school readiness

BN Verdine, RM Golinkoff, K Hirsh-Pasek… - Trends in Neuroscience …, 2014 - Elsevier
Experiences with spatial toys such as blocks, puzzles, and shape games, and the spatial
words and gestures they evoke from adults, have a significant influence on the early …

SES disparities in early math abilities: The contributions of parents' math cognitions, practices to support math, and math talk

L Elliott, HJ Bachman - Developmental Review, 2018 - Elsevier
SES disparities in early math achievement are large and persistent across development and
yet relatively understudied. Given the early emergence of these gaps, it is unlikely that …

Children's spatial thinking: Does talk about the spatial world matter?

SM Pruden, SC Levine… - Developmental science, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper we examine the relations between parent spatial language input, children's
own production of spatial language, and children's later spatial abilities. Using a longitudinal …

Picture this: Increasing math and science learning by improving spatial thinking.

NS Newcombe - American educator, 2010 - ERIC
Spatial thinking--such as visualizing the earth rotating--is crucial to student success in
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Since spatial thinking is …

Links between spatial and mathematical skills across the preschool years

BN Verdine, RM Golinkoff, K Hirsh-Pasek… - Monographs of the …, 2017 - JSTOR
Links between spatial and mathematical skills across the preschool years LINKS BETWEEN
SPATIAL AND MATHEMATICAL SKILLS ACROSS THE PRESCHOOL YEARS Brian N Verdine …

Effects of teacher-delivered book reading and play on vocabulary learning and self-regulation among low-income preschool children

DK Dickinson, MF Collins, K Nesbitt… - Journal of Cognition …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
There is a need for empirically based educational practices shown to support learning, yet
validation tends to require a high degree of experimental control that can limit ecological …

A review on complementary natures of tangible user interfaces (TUIs) and early spatial learning

GE Baykal, IV Alaca, AE Yantaç, T Göksun - International journal of child …, 2018 - Elsevier
Spatial skills are essential for everyday tasks, and technology blends seamlessly into
children's everyday environment. Since spatiality as a term is ubiquitous in experience this …

Effects of geometric toy design on parent–child interactions and spatial language

BN Verdine, L Zimmermann, L Foster… - Early childhood …, 2019 - Elsevier
Geometric forms have formal definitions. While knowing shape names is considered
important for school-readiness, many children do not understand the defining features of …

Spatial language during a household task with bilingual Latine families

G Melzi, V Mesalles, M Caspe, N Prishker - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - Elsevier
Children's exposure to everyday math talk contributes positively to their early math
development, yet little is known about family everyday math in culturally and linguistically …

Diversity of spatial activities and parents' spatial talk complexity predict preschoolers' gains in spatial skills

DS Fox, L Elliott, HJ Bachman… - Child …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Children's spatial activities and parental spatial talk were measured to examine their
associations with variability in preschoolers' spatial skills (N= 113, M age= 4 years, 4 …