From the Daily Mail
PUBLISHED:
1 May 2013
How picture books boost your
child's vocabulary:
Stories with no words help because toddlers ask
questions
about what they see.
- The study looked at 25 mothers as they read to their children at bedtime
- Mothers use a more sophisticated form of language when they picked a picture book compared to a book with words
Books with no words are actually best for boosting
children's language
skills, a study has found.
Want to help your child develop their vocabulary?
Pick a picture book
for their bedtime story.
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.
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