Learning to read begins the first time an infant is held and read a story. How often this happens, or fails to happen, in the first five years of childhood turns out to be one of the best predictors of later reading. -- Children who have never heard a story read to them, who never hear words that rhyme, who never imagine fighting with dragons or marrying a prince, have the odds overwhelmingly against them.
-- Maryanne Wolf, Proust and the Squid --
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Yes! Loved this book, and love the research that backs that statement up. It is so very true, and one of the reasons libraries fight to keep preschool storytimes going.
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