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Part 1: Birth Through Preschool Reading Skills

Reading Together

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The Value of Words

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).

Children from lower-income families are at greater risk of having smaller vocabularies than other children. One study of the actual vocabulary of first-graders found that those from high-income families had double the vocabulary of those from lower-income families (Graves & Slater, 1987).

None of these statistics should be used to blame parents. Rather, we should use evidence of what works to rally and support all families to take full advantage of their tremendous opportunity to prepare their children for reading success.

Given what we know about brain development, it is clear that parents should not leave to schools alone the important tasks of language and literacy development.

We must do more to enable and encourage parents to talk with their children and invest 30 minutes daily for reading.

When parents are unable, grandparents, neighbors, babysitters, siblings, and other adults should step in to serve as the child’s designated reader for the day.

It is an experience that children will remember for a lifetime, and one that will form the foundation for all later learning.

Part 2: Birth Through Preschool: Activities For Developing Reading Skills in Your Preschooler

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