Literacy Begins At Birth Summary

Literacy Begins at Birth After I explored the websitewww.readtoyourbaby.com, I found a great article “Literacy Begins at Birth” by Jack Prelutsky. The article emphasizes the importance of reading to the babies, and the ability of understanding words at an early age. Moreover, it said the average of words the babies can understand in the first eight to ten months, also it said that at 6 years old a child is able to understand about 13,000 words. The article explains how babies learn vocabulary, and it said that babies learn from hearing a flood of words from their parents through positive conversations and a daily variety of read-aloud. Reading aloud to babies and speak positive conversation with them are great ways of how we as an adult can teach them new vocabulary words. The author of the article “Literacy Begins at Birth” said, “The first building block of future reading ability is learning to understand and speak language. Babies learn phonemic awareness (the ability to perceive individual sounds in the stream of speech) in the first eight to ten months”. This quote is a further proof of the importance that reading to babies has, reading to babies in their first months is what will help them to learn, understand, read and speak fluently. Furthermore, the article states that TV or videos doesn’t provides the necessary
They are 8 principles which are; newborns need a quiet reading environment. Newborns are comforted by the sound of your voice. Hold and cuddle your baby when you read. When choosing a book, allow your baby to be your guide. Start reading at any page. You don't have to read all of the words in the book. Repeated readings are good for baby's language development and use "parentheses" when reading and talking to your baby. Those eight principles are very interesting and helpful for parents and for me as a future