Saturday, May 24, 2008

What one expert has to say about reading to children

Cosgrove (1989) suggests there are many benefits to reading to our tamariki. Some of these are:

#children have a wider more complex vocabulary and language repetoire

#children have a better understanding of what they hear

#children who are read to have greater success in learning to read than those who have not been read to

Reference

Cosgrove, M.S. (1989). Read out loud? Why bother? New England Reading Association Journal, 25, 9-22.

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