Features "listening, speaking, reading and writing strands to help learners develop the language skills needed to achieve academic success. Learners develop academic literacy skills through content, images, and video from National Geographic Digital Media." -- back cover.

The recent progress in cognitive neuroscience, and the importance of genetic factors and gene-environment interactions in shaping behavioral functions in early childhood, have both underscored the primacy of early experience and development on brain development and function.The contributors to this volume discuss different paradigms and approaches