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Tag: reading aloud

Literacy promotion: an essential component of primary care pediatric practice

Published on June 21, 2017 | In Blog, Resources | 0 Comment

Pediatrics. 2014 Aug;134(2):404-9. doi: 10.1542/peds.2014-1384. Epub 2014 Jun 23.  Council on Early Childhood, High PC, Klass P.
 
"The AAP supports federal and state funding for children's books to be provided at pediatric health supervision visits to children at high risk living at or near the poverty threshold and the integration of literacy promotion, an essential component of pediatric primary care, into pediatric resident education. This policy statement is supported by the AAP technical report "School Readiness" and supports the AAP policy statement "Early Childhood Adversity, Toxic Stress, and the Role of the Pediatrician: Translating Developmental Science Into Lifelong Health."

Abstract

"Reading regularly with young children stimulates optimal patterns of brain development and strengthens parent-child relationships at a critical time in child development, which, in turn, builds language, literacy, and social-emotional skills that last a lifetime. Pediatric providers have a unique opportunity to encourage parents to engage in this important and enjoyable activity with their children beginning in infancy. Research has revealed that parents listen and children learn as a result of literacy promotion by pediatricians, which provides a practical and evidence-based opportunity to support early brain development in primary care practice. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that pediatric providers promote early literacy development for children beginning in infancy and continuing at least until the age of kindergarten entry by (1) advising all parents that reading aloud with young children can enhance parent-child relationships and prepare young minds to learn language and early literacy skills; (2) counseling all parents about developmentally appropriate shared-reading activities that are enjoyable for children and their parents and offer language-rich exposure to books, pictures, and the written word; (3) providing developmentally appropriate books given at health supervision visits for all high-risk, low-income young children; (4) using a robust spectrum of options to support and promote these efforts; and (5) partnering with other child advocates to influence national messaging and policies that support and promote these key early shared-reading experiences." 

Copyright © 2014 by the American Academy of Pediatrics

[Indexed for MEDLINE]  Free full text PMID:24962987
DOI:
10.1542/peds.2014-1384

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Scholastic’s Kids & Family Reading Report 2017

Published on March 9, 2017 | In Blog, For Parents and Teachers | 0 Comment

In a feature article by Porter Anderson in Publishing Perspectives, February 3, 2017, subtitled: 

Insights From the US, UK, India and Australia

With new attention to diversity issues, Scholastic’s sixth biennial survey adds an Australian edition, and looks extensively on reading aloud at home. The main page for the new report online, offers the American study in six areas:

  • Key findings;
  • What kids and parents want in children’s books;
  • Reading books for fun;
  • Reading aloud;
  • Summer reading; and
  • Favorite children’s books.

This page offers a helpful set of direct access links to those various parts of the study.  Among some of the most interesting elements this time are comparative statistics on Hispanic and African-American readers and families in the American section.

And here, we can only touch on a few highlights from the report, but urge you to take advantage of its availability and give it a look.

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