CITE THE Research on Building Vocabulary
Research shows that children's vocabulary reflects their parents' vocabularies and that the children who are read to at an early age have stronger language skills
"Children's books have 50 percent more rare words in them than does adult prime-time television and the conversation of college graduates."
Cunningham, A. E. & Stanovich, K. E. (1998). What reading does for the mind. American Educator, 22(1&2), 8-15.
Cunningham, A. E. & Stanovich, K. E. (1998). What reading does for the mind. American Educator, 22(1&2), 8-15.
Children’s vocabulary growth reflects parental vocabulary levels where “86 percent to 98 percent of the words recorded in each child's vocabulary consisted of words also recorded in their parents' vocabularies.” Moreover, longitudinal research shows that vocabulary use at age three not only reflects parental vocabulary, it is also predictive of language skills at age nine or ten.
Hart, B., & Risley, T. R. (2003). The early catastrophe: The 30 million word gap by age 3. American Educator, 1(Spring), 4-9.
Hart, B., & Risley, T. R. (2003). The early catastrophe: The 30 million word gap by age 3. American Educator, 1(Spring), 4-9.
"The age at which parents begin reading to their children is correlated with children's language development; children who are read to from an early age tend to have higher scores on languages measures later on."
Duursma E, Augustyn M, Zuckerman B. Reading aloud to children: the evidence. Arch Dis Child. 2008;93(7):554–557
Duursma E, Augustyn M, Zuckerman B. Reading aloud to children: the evidence. Arch Dis Child. 2008;93(7):554–557