Radical Personal Finance 913: How to Invest in Your Children at a Very Young Age, Part 5: Help Your Children to Become Accomplished, Fluent Readers
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Feb 22, 2023 AI Snips
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Words Drive Early Cognitive Development
- The single most important metric for early cognitive development is the number of words a child hears daily.
- Exposure to large vocabularies and background knowledge dramatically boosts academic potential.
Make Read-Alouds A Daily Habit
- Read aloud to children regularly because it increases vocabulary, comprehension, and love of reading.
- One extra day per week of read-alouds in the first 10 years raises standardized scores by ~0.5 SD.
Use Listening To Access Advanced Texts
- Use read-alouds to let children access material beyond their independent reading level.
- Listening challenges their brains and accelerates comprehension before they can read those texts themselves.