Cultivating reading habit is one of the best gift you are giving to your kid life long success. Reading to children is proved to improve their linguistic development. In the first six years,children learn at a much faster pace than at any other time in their lives.
Vital connections in brain are made very early in life. At younger age , learning is faster than it will be as the child grows older. When a child start to read, the process of learning has profound influence on the entire functioning and development of brain.
Reading daily to young children, starting in infancy, can help them with language acquisition and literacy skills.
Importance of Reading Aloud to Little one and toddlers,
Babies love to hear the voices of familiar people. Talking to infants using both adult speech and “baby talk” is most interesting to little ones. Baby talk is called as Parentese or Motherese .
Parentese talk, speeds up the process of learning new words and help babies to connect object with words.
Reading aloud is truly nurturing parent -children relationship. To provide constant attention to your children , develop reading as daily habit in predictable , scheduled time which fits is every day.
Research “a million word gap”
Researchers at Ohio State University found that , young children whose parents read them five books a day enter kindergarten having heard about 1.4 million more words than kids whose parents didn’t read to them .
Kids who hear more vocabulary words are going to be better prepared to see those word in print when they enter school.
They are more likely to pick up reading skills more quickly and easily, said Jessica Logan , lead author of the study.
To test the word count , the team calculated the average number of word per age- appropriate book, then calculated how many words that would come out to kids having heard – at different reading levels, by their fifth birthday.The result is striking.
Kids who were ‘never’ read heard 4,662 words by kindergarten kids who were read a book a day came to school with 296,660 words and kids who heard five books a day came with 1,483,300 words. You see the difference —it’s that big difference.
It’s what researchers are now calling “a million word gap” in literacy .
Why Book Reading is Important:
Mamma you might think , we are just talking a lot to our kids?
Isn’t that the same as reading aloud to kids? The vocabulary word gap in this study is different from the conversational word gap. This isn’t about everyday communication . The words kids hear in books are going to be much more complex, difficult words than they hear just taking to their parents and others in home , Logan said.
You might me first time mom or mom of 2 or more kids, it’s not late to start reading books to your kids.Start right away , all you need is the your kid favourite book .
Truly , reading is not under the activity of homework or studying .
Reading books which your kid interested, it will become habit of learning .
