Where the learning comes from, and how each book is checked before your child reads it
Every book marked Educational on My Book Hub teaches one specific learning goal, and that goal comes from a real, published early-years or school curriculum, not from guesswork. This page names exactly which curricula we use for each age, and explains how a book gets from a curriculum topic to the page.
There is no formal school curriculum at this age, so these books follow the developmental milestones published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and the birth-to-three domains of the US Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework.
Topics include colours, shapes, animal sounds, big and small, the numbers one to three, body parts, simple feelings, textures and first actions.
The Early Learning Goals of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), the statutory framework for early years in England set by the Department for Education, together with the preschool domains of the US Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework (ELOF).
Topics include counting 1 to 10, the alphabet, shapes, opposites, days of the week, months and seasons, coins, telling the time, measuring, patterns, growing things, people who help us, my body and healthy eating.
The science programmes of study for Key Stage 1 (ages 5 to 7) and lower Key Stage 2 (ages 7 to 9), plus early geography skills.
Topics include the water cycle, animal habitats, how plants grow, the five senses, weather and seasons, everyday materials, light and dark, pushes and pulls, food chains, rocks and soil, the skeleton and muscles, recycling and map skills.
Upper Key Stage 2 science, history and geography, with a few everyday-life topics such as money and how communities make decisions.
Topics include human body systems, real explorers, the solar system, ancient civilisations, states of matter, electricity, sound and light, day and night, world geography, rivers and mountains, famous scientists, money and saving, and democracy basics.
Counting, letters, shapes, plants, animals, weather and the human body are taught in nurseries, preschools and primary and elementary classrooms almost everywhere, so the books work just as well for children outside the UK and US.
These are the official documents the learning goals are taken from:
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