{"id":107,"date":"2024-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2feetout.azurewebsites.net\/?p=107"},"modified":"2024-11-30T15:40:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T21:40:03","slug":"the-benefits-of-books-in-the-home-and-reading-to-your-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"The Benefits Of Books In The Home And Reading To Your Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/literacy002-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-108\" style=\"width:237px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2feetout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/literacy002.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2feetout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/literacy002.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2feetout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/literacy002.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2feetout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/literacy002.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-367a9c2a015b7d0b0f96a5c396b2c4fe\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>The single most significant factor influencing a child\u2019s early educational success is an introduction to books and being read to at home prior to beginning school.<\/strong><em>&nbsp;National Commission on Reading, 1985<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2c74bd351544191b0f45165a10e6a0bb\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>Having books in the home is twice as important as the father\u2019s education level.<\/strong><em>&nbsp;Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 2010<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-43c13af1c654e8808ae6848d0ec0a83d\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>The only behavior measure that correlates significantly with reading scores is the number of books in the home.&nbsp;<\/strong><em>The Literacy Crisis: False Claims, Real Solutions, 1998<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5b5b4eed63c420f150e6cfc1748b1991\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>The most successful way to improve the reading achievement of low-income children is to increase their access to print.&nbsp;<\/strong><em>Newman, Sanford, et all. \u201cAmerican\u2019s Child Care Crisis: A Crime Prevention Tragedy\u201d; Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, 2000.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-700df80d01747b43b948869fe951b562\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>By the age of 2, children who are read to regularly display greater language comprehension, larger vocabularies, and higher cognitive skills than their peers.<\/strong><em>&nbsp;Raikes, H., Pan, B.A., Luze, G.J., Tamis-LeMonda, C.S.,Brooks-Gunn, J., Constantine,J., Tarullo, L.B., Raikes, H.A., Rodriguez, E. (2006). \u201cMother-child book reading in low-income families: Correlates and outcomes during the first three years of life.\u201d Child Development, 77(4).<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-literacy-statistics","tag-page"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2feetout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/literacy002.jpg?fit=1200%2C1600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":577,"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2feetout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}