Sentences with phrase «reading than younger children»

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I read thousands of fantasy books as a child and young adult, and these actually hold no greater morality than many of them.

But for too many of our children it's just not happening: one UK father in three reads to his young child no more often than once a month.

Perri Klass MD, highlights the impact of daytime sleep for young children in her NYT article, «A Child's Nap Is More Complicated Than It Looks» — «Dr. Monique LeBourgeois, a sleep scientist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and her colleagues recently conducted the first study on how napping affects the cortisol awakening response, a burst of hormone secretion known to take place... Read More

The good news, according to the new Kids & Family Reading Report by Scholastic, is that more than three out of four parents who have children ages 5 and younger start reading aloud before their child reaches his first biReading Report by Scholastic, is that more than three out of four parents who have children ages 5 and younger start reading aloud before their child reaches his first bireading aloud before their child reaches his first birthday.

For example, if you've got a young child who wants to spend time online, you may want to monitor his or her behavior and activity a little bit more than you would if the same child was reading a book or playing privately instead.

Children learn to read at different ages and some show the reading readiness signs at much younger ages than others.

Anniversaries, TV shows, movies, documentaries and even little old publishers with good intentions and limited funds can draw people's attention to the wealth of truly classic literature available in individual slices for less than a cup of coffee, but it takes a co-ordinated and sustained effort, based on nothing more or less than a belief in the inherent worth, to individuals, to society and, especially, to children and young people, of great books and of the power of reading.

Teachers and administrators who work with children from low - income families say one reason teachers struggle to help these students improve reading comprehension is that deficits start at such a young age: in the 1980s, the psychologists Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley found that by the time they are 4 years old, children from poor families have heard 32 million fewer words than children with professional parents.

Research finds that if young children are chronically absent for more than one year, they are less likely to read proficiently by the end of third grade, and more likely to be retained in elementary school.

Silberman and Silberman, who first used the term in their 1967 paper «Hyperlexia: Specific word recognition skills in young children,» describe a continuum of reading ability with children who have disabilities such as dyslexia on one end, children with no reading problems in the middle, and at the other end children who «are able to recognize words mechanically at a higher instructional level than indicated by their intellectual potential.»

Jonathan Douglas, director of National Literacy Trust, said: «The fact that children are reading less than in 2005 signals a worrying shift in young people's literacy habits.

Additionally, in light of the data that shows a higher - than - ever percentage of crossover fans — adults who purchase young adult titles for their own reading — this will help consumers understand what constitutes appropriate for different individual readers; a parent whose child is thirteen years old may not be at the right maturity level to read a series such as the Divergent titles, for example, while a child as young as ten years old may actually be ready for the thematic elements and violence in The Hunger Games.

Subscription - based model Bookboard, an app that allows young readers to unlock new books as they keep reading, is currently in its public beta launch but has already developed and introduced new features that allow parents to receive feedback on what is read, as well as control the reading level of what their children access rather than simply basing it on chronological age of the user.

As a reading teacher for 20 years, the educational consultant for Dell Yearling and Young Yearling books, an adviser and instructor to aspiring writers, and the author of more than 60 books for children, Patricia... (more)

As far as I know I read all of these, as a child, younger than 10.

Barnes & Noble's youngest customers can also enjoy more than 12,000 children's chapter books on all NOOK iPad and iPhone free reading apps, offering the ability to change the text appearance, take notes and look up words.

I have loved reading since I was a young child and there is nothing that fills me with more joy than the earthy, sweet smell of a new book and the feeling of printed paper pressed between my fingers.

I have loved reading since I was a young child and there is nothing that fills me with more joy than the earthy, sweet smell of a new book and the feeling of printed paper pressed between my -LSB-...]

Young Latino children have higher adjusted odds of being read to less than every day, of having fewer numbers of children's books in the household, and of the family never eating lunch or dinner together.

Parents» engagement in these activities was higher than that reported in the National Survey of Early Childhood Health (NSECH) 6 and the Commonwealth Fund Survey of Parents with Young Children (CWF).4 For example, more Healthy Steps parents read to their children daily or showed their children picture books (Healthy Steps, 68 %; NSECH, 52 %; CWF, 48 %) and had the same bedtime (Healthy Steps, 77 %; NSECHChildren (CWF).4 For example, more Healthy Steps parents read to their children daily or showed their children picture books (Healthy Steps, 68 %; NSECH, 52 %; CWF, 48 %) and had the same bedtime (Healthy Steps, 77 %; NSECHchildren daily or showed their children picture books (Healthy Steps, 68 %; NSECH, 52 %; CWF, 48 %) and had the same bedtime (Healthy Steps, 77 %; NSECHchildren picture books (Healthy Steps, 68 %; NSECH, 52 %; CWF, 48 %) and had the same bedtime (Healthy Steps, 77 %; NSECH, 68 %).

Black and Hispanic mothers talk less with their young children than do white mothers and are less likely to read to them daily.

The program processes more than $ 1 million a day in medical and child support for our youngest and most vulnerable Oregonians and is one of the most cost - effective and efficient agencies in the state... read more

Comment: Female older siblings are far more likely than male older siblings to be given child care responsibilities while young; teenage girls are far more likely than teenage boys to hold childcare and babysitting jobs; new mothers are far more likely to have prepared for parenthood by reading pregnancy - to - parenting articles and books as well as talking with (and spending social time with) primary caregiving women friends and relatives and their children; the ever - present months - long pregnancy itself initiates mothers into a mindset of habitual constant awareness of child - whereabouts; and various biological and hormonal factors make mothers more responsive to routine infant cues (other than severe distress cries.)

The child WAS involved in Christian ministry as a young adult, when they left me — though I never pushed reading the bible or forced fed Christianity to them (it was caught rather than taught)-- but this child has now dropped out of Christianity and is a self professing Buddhist with the ethnic spouse to match.