Baby/Toddler Reading: What Neuroscientists and Parents Need to Know | Psychology Today - 0 views
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experts seem to think that baby/toddler reading and learning to read in school are the same. They aren't. Of course babies and toddlers don't have the brain development to learn to read like a 6-year-old. Early literacy experts have come to understand that babies and toddlers learn to read differently.
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Although no one can explain exactly how baby/toddler reading works, babies do have capacities from birth to age 3 for picking up reading–including phonics patterns and decoding–similar to their capacities for picking up languages.
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hese events require intimate physical contact such as snuggling with a book or cuddling with the baby or toddler at the computer.
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