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2003-01-17 Understanding Children—Language Development
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Learn what parents and caregivers can do to teach important language skills to children from birth to 6 years. Written by Lesia Oesterreich. Linked by permission of Iowa State University Extension.
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http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/PM1529F.pdf
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2001-10-11 Developing Empathy with Books
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Reading a book to a child very often offers parents and children the opportunity to discuss feelings. There’s even a technical term for using books to work out issues; bibliotherapy. A child who is having difficulty expressing feelings about, say, the parents’ divorce, or the death of a loved on, might open up if he can see a character in a book dealing with the same life trauma. It can also work the other way around: According to a recent study, three year olds who are included in discussions about other people’s feeling are likely to recognize them and understand these feelings when they encounter them later on, in themselves or in others. Books can prepare children for what life has in store.
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2001-09-28 The Value of Vocabulary
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Research demonstrates that the size of a young child’s vocabulary is a strong predictor of reading—preschoolers with large vocabularies tend to become proficient readers (National Research Council, 1998). Children’s vocabulary can be greatly enhanced by talking and reading with parents. In fact, the vocabulary of the average children’s book is greater than that found on prime-time television (Hayes & Ahrens, 1988).
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2001-09-06 How To Encourage Preschoolers to Read
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Many parents recognize the value and enjoyment of reading to their young children but perhaps are not clear about how they can help their children become better readers. Because reading is so important to children's success in school, parents can and should help their children become interested in reading and encourage growth in their reading skills. "Learning to read is a lengthy and difficult process for many children, and success in learning to read is based in large part on developing language and literacy-related skills very early in life" (Lyon, 1997). Young children develop a more positive attitude toward reading if they experience warm and close contact with their parents while reading.
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