I read an interesting article about a new study published by the Society for Research in Child Development yesterday. It was studying reading between parents and children and how to improve literacy.
The gist of the study suggested that when reading with your child it is important to get them to focus on the words. This could be accomplished by simply pointing out the occasional word, showing how the text flowed from left to right, bringing attention to capitals, pointing out letters and their shapes and the words formed by the letters. This was not intrusive to the reading of the story but simply focused the child on the print and words as units.
It was fascinating that such a small change to reading with your child could have such a large impact on their ability to learn to read. Here is a link to the news article, Therapy Toronto .
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