Child Literacy:
Reading allowed to young children, even babies can stimulate cognitive and language skills. It can also help build imagination, curiosity, and memory. Reading to your child can also help build a bond that they will remember forever. Our children need the words and pictures they get from these books to help them grow. Just like feeding them food, we must feed them knowledge too. Did you know that poor experiences can cause a genectically normal child to have a low I.Q.? Achild's brain is very active for the first 10 years of life, more active than an adults. So why not let them use all that activity buy using it for soemthing good. The heading below are links that will take you to some more infomation about literacy and why it's important.
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NEA-National Education Association Literacy Foundation |