Reading aloud helps kids develop language
June 19, 2008 1:55 pm Childrens, Why reading?Reading to children is an important tool for language development. Intuitively, we know it has some effect on their future interest in reading and books. Books are useful in themselves, but the interaction between the child and adult reading together is vital.
Psychologists at York University recently studied interactions between parents and children while reading. It was found that all parents, despite gender or marital situation, added value to reading by what they said to the child. Children who had good language scores had parents who tied the story back to the child’s own experiences. Imitation and questions about the text were also related to language development in the older age studied (three year olds).
It is an interesting study and made me think more about how I interact with my children when studying. A summary of the article is reproduced here:
Book reading styles in dual-parent and single-moth…[Br J Educ Psychol. 2006] - PubMed Result
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