Picture books boost your child's vocabulary

Subject: Picture books boost your child's vocabulary Tue Apr 30, 2013 9:32 pm

Want to help your child develop their vocabulary? Pick a picture book for their bedtime story.

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Books with no words are actually best for boosting children’s language skills, a study has found.

Experts said parents who turn to wordless storybooks end up spending time discussing the pictures and answering their toddler’s questions – exposing them to complicated words.

The study looked at 25 mothers as they read their children a set of bedtime stories.

Psychologists from the University of Waterloo, Canada, found the mothers used more advanced language when they picked up a picture book compared to a book with words.

Study author professor Daniela O’Neill said: ‘Too often parents will dismiss picture storybooks, especially when they are wordless, as not real reading or just for fun. But these findings show that reading picture storybooks with kids exposes them to the kind of talk that is really important for children to hear.

‘Mums frequently used more forms of complex talk when reading the picture storybook to their child than the picture-vocabulary book.’

She added: ‘Books of all kinds can build children’s language and literacy skills, but they do so perhaps in different ways.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2317434/How-picture-books-boost-childs-vocabulary-Stories-words-help-toddlers-ask-questions-see.html#ixzz2S05agbJJ

Picture books boost your child's vocabulary

Picture books boost your child's vocabulary

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