READING TO INFANTS AND VERY YOUNG CHILDREN IS CRITICAL FOR FUTURE HIGH LEVELS OF READING LITERACY

Dr. John H. Braccio talks with Dave Akerly on the “Morning Wake-Up With Dave Akerly” radio show, on 7/24/18 on WLNS, 1320 a.m.in Lansing, Michigan about a follow up to our segment ON kocasinan escort READING last week. The topic is: READING TO INFANTS AND VERY YOUNG CHILDREN IS CRITICAL FOR FUTURE HIGH LEVELS OF READING LITERACY. The more words parents use when talking to their 8-month-old infant the greater vocabulary the child will have at age 3. The well-known Hart-Ridley Study documented that low-income children hear as many as 30 million less words than higher income homes in that short time period. That is shocking and partially explains the later literacy problems of so many low-income children. Reading out loud to your infant encourages language development. Children who fall behind sadly often fall behind in critical reading skills that are never fully made up. A definition of Reading Literacy is as follows: READING LITERACY IS THE ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND READING MATERIALS IN A WAY TO PULL OUT RELEVANT INFORMATION AND BE ABLE TO ANALYZE AND USE IT AS IS NEEDED AND DESIRED FOR WORK AND/OR LEISURE PURPOSES