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Source: NY Times From the moment you’re expecting your first child, you are bombarded with messages about the importance of reading. For good reason: The benefits of reading at every stage of a child’s development are well documented. Happily, raising a reader is fun, rewarding and relatively easy. Start Them Early FIRST, REACQUAINT YOURSELF WITH READING If you’ve let reading slide to the margins of your life, now is the time to bring it back. Make the…
Source: New York Daily News A bedtime story’s goal isn’t just a good night’s sleep. New research from the American Academy of Pediatrics shows that reading books with a child beginning in infancy can boost vocabulary and reading skills four years later – before they even start elementary school. High-quality reading in infancy lead to early reading skills years later, and high-quantity storytime in toddlerhood showed strong ties to literacy skills, like name writing, as early…