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Twenty-year-old Drew Johnston scored a perfect 800 on the verbal section of the Scholastic Aptitude Test. The secret? Johnston started learning about written language before he was a year old.His mother believed it was important to read to her son before he could speak, and today’s experts agree with that motherly intuition. There is research that 6-month-old kids orient differently toward a book than toward a toy. The purpose of this exposure is to help their literacy emerge. It is important that people don’t wait. Reading to children well before they can read for themselves teaches them the concepts of print. Such concepts include words and picture layout. Words run left to right, top to bottom and have spaces between them. Pictures explain and illustrate a story.
http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/apr99/simun4.htm
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