Increasingly, researchers are also confirming a link between early academic success and young children’s understanding of emotion. For example Leerkes, Paradise, O’Brien, Calkins, & Lange (2008) showed that emotion knowledge but not emotion regulation was related to preschoolers’ pre-academic achievement. Similarly, Izard et al., (2001; Izard, 2002) found strong evidence that 5-year-olds’ emotion knowledge predicted both their age 9 social and academic competence. Thus, it is evident that children’s ability to understand emotions, especially in context, plays an important role in their concurrent and later academic success, often accounting for many important covariates (e.g., age, sex, race/ethnicity, earlier competence)