Improving kids' lives with reading skills, music vocabulary, and health literacy
Improving kids' lives with reading skills, music vocabulary, and health literacy
Stories are powerful tools for teaching children essential skills and concepts. The Center for Functional Learning helps parents, caregivers, clinicians, and educators improve kids’ lives and learning with creative resources. We are the first company to combine reading skills, music vocabulary, and health promotion for emerging readers.
Meet Grace and her friends
Grace was once a small music note on a page but, with a little magic, she became a real little girl. Through her adventures with her friends, she teaches kids about the world around them.
Vocabulary enrichment
Packed with rich, relevant vocabulary for emerging readers
Positive messages
Uplifting storylines about cooperation and creativity
Healthy Habits
Creative resources for developing and understanding healthy habits
Exciting characters
Enhance retention with memorable, diverse characters
For Parents and Caregivers
Boost Learning and Connection
Give children powerful tools for building early literacy skills. Through their adventures, Grace and her friends open up new experiences, ideas, and concepts for children ages 3-6.
For Clinicians
Extend Patient Care with Creative Tools
Engage patients and parents with creative health education resources that go beyond the exam room. Our characters and stories provide age-appropriate wellness education that can be reinforced throughout your practice—and at home.
Extended encounters
Boost learning without spending more time in the exam room
Health literacy
Improve health literacy with simple, powerful messages and reinforcement resources
Customized concepts
Teach vocabulary and concepts with storybooks, posters, word finds, activities, and more
Clinical expertise
Designed for pediatric clinical use by a physician assistant with 30+ years of experience
Vocabulary enrichment
Packed with rich, relevant musical vocabulary
Musical characters
Open the world of music to children with musical characters
Ready-to-use tool
Build lesson plans around creative storylines
Curriculum connections
Fits into core curricula and experiential learning goals
For Educators
Enrich Early Childhood Music Education
Enhance your music curriculum with Grace and her friends. Our Healthy Music Project stories and resources give you vocabulary-rich storylines to boost young students’ learning.
Grace and the Rock and Roll Forever Foundation
This year, Grace takes on a new adventure when she becomes a rock & roll guitarist! We’ll be working with the Rock and Roll Forever Foundation to put Grace’s story and lessons into every elementary school classroom.
