The webisodes in this series offer key messages and helpful resources to get staff started with the youngest children and their families. Managers can use Early Essentials to design orientation experiences or staff can participate on their own.

Discover more about infant and toddler language development. Hear tips on how to support this development, including for children who are dual language learners.

Explore the Early Essentials video series. Learn what Early Head Start, Migrant and Seasonal Head Start, and child care staff can do to support infant and toddler development and learning.

Conversations help children develop varied vocabularies. Find out how to use everyday talks with children to help them learn more vocabulary words.

Learn how to use ideas from nature to teach language and literacy in the classroom.

Caregivers and teachers, even when they do not know the home language of children, can use a number of effective strategies throughout the day to support the children’s English language development.

Use this video to guide reflection and enhance practices that support language development with infants, toddlers, and their families.