Sentences with phrase «stimulating books and reading»

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TV shows and films are stimulating people to buy books and to read them.

Celebrating the power of words to stimulate, agitate, unite, delight, and inspire, Boston Book Festival presents year - round events culminating in an annual festival that promotes a culture of reading and ideas and enhances the vibrancy of our city.

Growing up reading books not only stimulates learning and creativity but also allows for family bonding time.

If you can keep it bright and busy with sounds, sights, and noises to stimulate your baby during the day; and keep night times quite and peaceful, then dim the lights to help your baby feel calm and read a book or give them a bath or a bed time bottle (or breast, obviously) during the same time every night, your baby will get a good sense of when it's time to sleep and when it isn't.

Use baby sign language when you sing and read, stimulating your baby's interest in the song or book

Commenting on the success of the initiative, BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson said, «Alom's book is a perfect tool for helping young people to think critically about the world around them, whether used in the classroom to stimulate discussion or simply read at home for pleasure, with the warmth and colour that only autobiography can provide.»

And another study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that elderly patients who played mentally stimulating games or read books were two and a half times less likely to develop Alzheimer's, a disease affecting millions of AmericaAnd another study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that elderly patients who played mentally stimulating games or read books were two and a half times less likely to develop Alzheimer's, a disease affecting millions of Americaand a half times less likely to develop Alzheimer's, a disease affecting millions of Americans.

To start off, I'm grateful for: mine, Zoey, and family's good health, a peaceful environment, rest, books to read, the space to meditate and take care of myself, a rewarding and stimulating job, friends that have re-entered my life, nature, art all around me, good people in my life who are non-judgemental, respectful and amazing human beings, the local farmer's market, facials / therapeutic services, living in a free country, access to nourishing meals, and opportunities.

This study evaluated the effectiveness of a low - cost and large - scale summer reading intervention that provided comprehension lessons at the end of the school year and stimulated home - based summer reading routines with narrative and informational books.

Suzanne E. Mol, Adriana G. Bus, and Maria T. de Jong, «Interactive Book Reading in Early Education: A Tool to Stimulate Print Knowledge as Well as Oral Language,» Review of Educational Research 79 (2009): 979 — 1007; Suzanne E. Mol, Adriana G. Bus, Maria T. de Jong, and Daisy J. H. Smeets, «Added Value of Dialogic Parent - Child Book Readings: A Meta - Analysis,» Early Education and Development 19 (2008): 7 — 26; and National Early Literacy Panel, Developing Early Literacy: Report of the National Early Literacy Panel (Washington, DC: National Institute for Literacy, 2008).

Fran: I found reading your books very mind stimulating and quite informative.

Anything to encourage people to read is a good thing, and bookstores should benefit because everyone buying the same book should stimulate sales.

The reasons that people give for joining a book club include reading a wide variety of books, making friends, having fun, meeting like - minded people and stimulating the brain cells!

E-book technologies will increase the awareness of titles and stimulate book sales, while e-readers, tablets and apps will boost digital sales in Japan, the US,... [Read more...]

Trade Publishers Executive Committee: Creates and supports national efforts to advocate reading, increase book buying in all formats, and stimulate ideas that contribute to the profitability and health of the trade publishing industry.

The key words and analogies featured in the book are intended to elicit strong mental — but particularly strong emotional — images or memories in the hearer, to stimulate in the listener a flood of associations... Read More»

Activities like hide and seek, playing with building blocks and reading a simple book all stimulate different areas of a child's brain and aid in their overall development.

For example, compared to older mothers, teen mothers display lower levels of verbal stimulation and involvement, higher levels of intrusiveness, and maternal speech that is less varied and complex.47, 48 Mothers with fewer years of education read to their children less frequently25, 49 and demonstrate less sophisticated language and literacy skills themselves, 50 which affects the quantity and quality of their verbal interactions with their children.2 Parental education, in turn, relates to household income: poverty and persistent poverty are strongly associated with less stimulating home environments, 51 and parents living in poverty have children who are at risk for cognitive, academic, and social - emotional difficulties.52, 53 Finally, Hispanic and African American mothers are, on average, less likely to read to their children than White, non-Hispanic mothers; 54 and Spanish - speaking Hispanic families have fewer children's books available in the home as compared to their non-Hispanic counterparts.25 These racial and ethnic findings are likely explained by differences in family resources across groups, as minority status is often associated with various social - demographic risks.

Nevertheless, these findings support previous studies showing that cognitively stimulating activities such as museum visits, the presence of books and magazines, 4 and parents» own reading habits5, 20,21 to be important factors in the promotion of cognitive development.