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“Before two years of age, human interaction and physical interaction with books and print are the best entry into the world of oral and written language and internalized knowledge, the building blocks of the later reading circuit.”

Early Childhood Language Learning Print Books Brain Development

Book:Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World

Source: Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World

“Increasing numbers of developmental researchers observe that when parents read stories on e-books with their children, their interactions frequently center on the more mechanical and more gamelike aspects of e-books, rather than the content and the words and ideas in the stories. Most parents are simply better at fostering language and helping to clarify concepts when they read physical books to their preschool children.”

Language Learning Print Books E Books Parent And Child Reading To Children

Book:Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World

Source: Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World

“...before most of us possess an inkling that babies could be listening to us, infants are making astonishing connections between listening to human voices and developing their language system. Think how much more can happen in those regions when parents slowly, deliberately read to their children, *just to them*, with mutually focused attention. This disarmingly simple act makes huge contributions: it provides not only the most palpable associations with reading, but also a time when parent and child are together in a timeless interaction that involves shared attention; learning about words, sentences, and concepts; and even learning what a book is. One of the most salient influences on young children's attention involves the shared gaze that occurs and develops while parents read to them. With little conscious effort children learn to focus their visual attention on what their parent or caretaker is looking at without losing an ounce of their own curiosity and exploratory behaviors. As the philosopher Charles Taylor notes, "The crucial condition for human language learning is *joint* attention," which he and others who are involved in studying the ontogenesis of language consider one of the most important features of human evolution.”

Attention Parents And Children Language Learning Infants Brain Development Reading To Children

Book:Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World

Source: Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World