Content developers can improve their educational materials by incorporating the following research-based recommendations related to early grades mathematics and language instruction:

• Create purposeful, equitable, and consistent opportunities for all children to interact with one another and with the content they are learning.
• Make play and routines a crucial part of the language development and learning process.
• Use authentic concrete representations, manipulatives, and realia to support meaning making and language development.
• Use mathematizing activities and practices that come from children, their families, and their communities.
• Develop oral language as the foundation for language, literacy, and all learning