Jennise Conley's Blog - Posts Tagged "reading"

Repetitious reading not only increases language and vocabulary, but it also allows children to predict the story’s outcome. Predicting rhyming words and phrases is an essential step in the process of learning to read and developing a positive attitude toward books and literature. (Schaper, 2003)

Engaging young children with picture books of well-loved folk songs and rhymes accelerates their oral language development and builds phonemic awareness naturally while the child is delighting in the sounds of language and connecting that joy to print.

Scientists at University of Pennsylvania found that the more mental stimulation a child gets around the age of four, the more developed the parts of their brains dedicated to language and cognition will be in the decades ahead (Farah, 2012).