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Crissi Blair

Bedtime Stories for Young Brains - NYTimes.com - 4 views

  • all pediatric primary care should include literacy promotion, starting at birth
  • how important it is to read to even very young children
  • “When we show them a video of a story, do we short circuit that process a little?” he asked. “Are we taking that job away from them? They’re not having to imagine the story; it’s just being fed to them.”
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  • it is important that young children hear language, and that they need to hear it from people, not from screens.
  • serious disparities in how much language children hear
  • reading picture books with young children may mean that they hear more words, while at the same time, their brains practice creating the images associated with those words
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    Research into the benefits, indeed the necessity, of reading to young children.
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