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Conversations or Dumping Words

"The important thing is not just to talk to your child, but to talk with your child.  It's not just about dumping language into your child's brain, but to actually carry on a conversation with them."  Rachel Romero, a graduate student at Harvard and MIT.

This is in contrast to the '30 million word gap' so many thought was the problem in regards to reading comprehension and vocabulary with kids entering kindergarten.   The 'gap' refers to the head start higher income students were believed to have when entering Kindergarten because they had heard 30 million more words before entering school than lower income students.  According to this research, things have changed.   If true, the playing field will start to become much more even.  The new research suggests parents should engage their kids in actual conversation rather than just feeding them words.  Crazy to think this is new and innovative. 

The research is encouraging and discouraging at the same time.  I'm encouraged the gap is closing but bothered the article talked about developing technology to have conversations with your kids.  Thoughts?


 

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