On 28 May 2025, following last year’s fruitful outreach, our Brain-NORM team returned to participate in the National Library Board Edu-Connect event held at the Central Public Library, with this year’s theme being social-emotional development for children!

During the event, our team had the pleasure of meeting educators and principals from various preschools in Singapore. We shared useful tips on how to guide children to learn literacy and numeracy skills through reading books.

Our flyers on helpful tips to improve literacy and numeracy skills through book reading. Feel free to save a copy of them to try the tips with your child!

We also shared some reading materials produced by our lab and how research can deepen our understanding of the reading development in young children (spot our ocean-themed book in the video below designed to make reading exciting and educational 😉 ).

(Researchers in the video: Dr. Lynette Looi, Louise, Swetha, Adam) 

Curious about how you can make reading fun and engaging for your children? Find out more in our post on shared book reading and unlock simple science-based tips you can try at home!

On top of sharing these tips with early childhood educators, we also promoted our Brain-NORM study and discussed opportunities for collaboration with them! If you are interested to sign up for our study as a parent, visit this page to learn more about the study!

 

Written by: Adam

Video by: Adam

Photographs by: Lynette, Adam

Edited by: Lynette