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Can reading aloud help child development? 

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Can reading aloud help child development? 

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Reading aloud allows all children of any social class to have the same opportunity to pick up vocabulary.

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Every day speech may contain repeated words or less advance words than books. This limits the child's vocabulary to essentially what the parents' vocabulary contains. Families of a lower class also will have the same advantage as families of a higher education, just by reading even just children's books to their child. The brain of a human is most absorbing and it is most effective to input information into a person when they are young and still in their early years. Vocabulary growth and just brain growth in general that is developed early on in life will positively affect them later on in life, especially during their schooling years.

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What about your evidence makes it scientifically valid? 

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What about your evidence makes it scientifically valid? 

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What makes it scientifically valid is the fact that most of our evidence is based off studies that they have been doing over long periods of time and have numbers and graphs to back it up.

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When you test it out multiple times. However, diligent scientists record data many times to maintain validity and reliability.

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Reading to Young Children: A Head-Start in Life

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Reading to Young Children: A Head-Start in Life

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Children read to more frequently at age 4-5 achieve higher scores on the National Assessment Program-LIteracy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) tests for both Reading and Numeracy in Year 3 (age 8 to 9).

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Study Says Reading Aloud to Children, More Than Talking Builds Literacy 

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Study Says Reading Aloud to Children, More Than Talking Builds Literacy 

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Massaro said the limited vocabulary in ordinary, informal speech means what has been dubbed "the  talking cure" - encouraging parents to talk more to their children to increase their vocabularies - has its drawbacks. Reading picture books to children would not only expose them to more words, he said but it also would have a leveling effect for families with less education and a more limited vocabulary.

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Reading to Young Children: A Head-Start In Life

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Reading to Young Children: A Head-Start In Life

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The most effective period for cognitive skill investment by parents is early on in the life of their children.

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Reading to Young Children: A Head-Start In Life

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Reading to Young Children: A Head-Start In Life

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Reading to pre-schoolers has been found to be related to lanuage growth, emergent literacy and reading achievement.

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Study Says Reading Aloud to Children, More Than Talking Builds Literacy 

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Study Says Reading Aloud to Children, More Than Talking Builds Literacy 

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But more picture book reading would be beneficial to children from every social class, Massaro said. What limits the tongue of even well-educated adults are "certain rules of discourse" such as responding quickly, he said. That reduces word choices to those acquired early and used more frequently. In conversation, people also repeat words that have been recently spoken, further restricting the variety of words used.

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How Does Reading Aloud Improve Literacy Development?

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How Does Reading Aloud Improve Literacy Development?

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Teachers can also expand students’ vocabulary by reading texts with new or unfamiliar words. Teachers can introduce those words correctly, which helps students understand pronunciation and meaning without working through the uncertainty of encountering the words on their own.

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Study Says Reading Aloud to Children, More Than Talking Builds Literacy 

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Study Says Reading Aloud to Children, More Than Talking Builds Literacy 

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Massaro said encouraging older children to sound out words and explaining what a word means if it isn't clear in the context of the story will help build children's vocabularies. Allowing children to pick the books they are interested in and turn the pages themselves keeps them active and engaged in learning.

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How Does Reading Aloud Improve Literacy Development

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How Does Reading Aloud Improve Literacy Development

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Reading aloud is an essential skill. Parents who begin reading stories to their children at a young age can accelerate their children’s literacy development. However, teachers should still expect struggling readers in every class. Reading aloud with the students and modeling vocabulary can help readers at all levels by expanding vocabulary and modeling usage.

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Study Says Reading Aloud to Children, More Than Talking Builds Literacy 

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Study Says Reading Aloud to Children, More Than Talking Builds Literacy 

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In the study, Massaro compared the words in a 112 popular picture books to adult-to-child conversations and adult-to-adult conversations...In his comparison, Massaro identified the number of uncommon words, and he determined that the picture books he analyzed contained more of them than the language used in conversation.

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Did you know that only 48% of children are read to each day? Reading aloud promotes language development, vocabulary, and literacy skills. It also instills a love of reading while knowledge is gained and shared between the parent and child. Reading aloud encourages bonding and the sharing of memories. Is there anything better than sharing a good book?

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Did you know that only 48% of children are read to each day? Reading aloud promotes language development, vocabulary, and literacy skills. It also instills a love of reading while knowledge is gained and shared between the parent and child. Reading aloud encourages bonding and the sharing of memories.

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Study Says Reading Aloud to Children, More Than Talking Builds Literacy 

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Study Says Reading Aloud to Children, More Than Talking Builds Literacy 

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Reading picture books  to babies and toddlers is important, he said, because the earlier children acquire language, the more likely they are to master it.
"You are stretching them in vocabulary and grammar at an early age," Massaro said "You are preparing them to be expert language users, and indirectly you are going to facilitate their learning to read."

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Teaching music in primary-middle school...

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4 ways music builds early literacy skills

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Reading aloud demonstrates the relationship between the printed word and meaning – children understand that print tells a story or conveys information – and invites the listener into a conversation with the author.

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Children can listen on a higher language level than they can read, so reading aloud makes complex ideas more accessible and exposes children to vocabulary and language patterns that are not part of everyday speech

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Similar to child health problems, certain ‘‘risk’’ factors such as socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity and parental educa- tion can affect children’s development of emergent literacy and oral language skills.