Education Report - Small Change Can Improve a Child's Reading

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VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Teachers parents usually call attention to the pictures when they storybooks to preschool children. But a study published in suggests that calling attention to the words and letters the page may help a child's reading. The two-year compared children who were read to this way in with children who were not. The children whose teachers often discussed the print showed clearly higher skills in , spelling and understanding. These results were found one year even two years later. Shayne Piasta at Ohio State was an author of the study. She said most teachers would find this method manageable and would need a small change in the way they teach. They read storybooks in class. The only difference would be attention to the printed text. If you get children pay attention to letters and words, it makes sense would do better at word recognition and spelling. But suggests that very few parents and teachers do this a systematic way. The report appeared in the journal DevelopmentMore than 300 children ages four and five were for the study. The children came from poor families were below average in their language skills. There are ways that adults can talk to children about print. can point to a letter and discuss it, and trace the shape with a finger. They can point a word. They can discuss the meaning of the or how the words tell the story. And they talk about the organization of the print ---- for , showing how words are written left to right in . For VOA Learning English, I'm Alex Villarreal. (Adapted from radio program broadcast 07Mar2013)

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