More More More Said the Baby by Vera B. Williams

In addition, reading to your child and reading together can establish the overall foundational literacy skills that are essential for the child. This shared reading experience was found highly beneficial in developing various skills such as listening, spelling, reading comprehension, and vocabulary. Studies showed that even after your child’s learned how to read, it is important that you read with them as long as possible. Boost Their Language Developmentīedtime stories and storytime, in general, come with an abundance of benefits, but one of the most obvious ones is that bedtime stories improve your child’s language skills. However, through stories, children can learn different vocabulary. You may not be able to put them into your daily conversations.

As mentioned before, there may be many words in the story that are generally out of their general environment. Reading to your child could improve and expand your kiddo’s vocabulary more than just talking to them. Bedtime stories can be a stepping stone for conversations. Parents and caregivers can use bedtime stories to boost their child’s language skills. Stories you can read to your child will contain words they will not see in their immediate environment. Because for these children to be able to break these words into pieces, they first have to know the sounds. This allowed these children to gain the skill to break down the words they didn’t know into pieces. The more the children were read and heard the phonemes in the English language, ranging from the sounds ee to ss, the more and faster their brains developed to process these sounds better. After eight weeks of reading to these children and doing other literacy exercises with them resulted in a change in their brain activity that made them look like that of the children who were good readers.

Another benefit the research results showed is that reading bedtime stories actually rewire the child’s brain in terms of language development.ĭuring the study, the scientists found that there was little activity in the verbal-processing areas in the brains of children that are poor readers. Not only are they valuable in terms of teaching verbal interactions, but they also improve the logic skills and even lower stress levels of the children. Studies on bedtime stories’ effects on children’s brain development showed that these stories are more beneficial than previously thought.

There are real benefits of these stories, and the following are some in the list: Rewire Your Child’s Brain The Benefits of Bedtime Storiesīedtime stories aren’t just good for sending your child to sleep. Recent studies on bedtime stories have also shown us that they are also powerful ways of enhancing your child’s brain development. Bedtime stories have always been a tool for parents and caregivers to improve their bonds with their children while also preparing them for sleep.

More More More Said the Baby by Vera B. Williams