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What types of books should we read to young children?
August 22, 2008 by destiny
Category Product and Site Reviews, Research and Trends | Tags: , books, child development, educational, learning, toddlers
[...] Picture books often make the best educational “toys” for young children. Why? One of the key concepts that children must master as part of their cognitive development and language building skills is the difference between individual things and categories of things (for example, the difference between Mom vs. woman). Pictures themselves represent two different things at the same time– the picture itself is a thing, but it also represents something else. An article I wrote on why picture books make great toys discusses the latest research showing that children may learn new words more accurately from pictures than from 3D objects, especially when part of reading time between parents and children. [...]