This blog is written by Caroline Blakemore, coauthor of BABY READ-ALOUD BASICS, published in July 2006 by AMACOM Books. I am a retired Reading Specialist who worked for 30 years with children who had minor or major difficulties learning to read. I loved these kids, and felt that most suffered needlessly because of their lack of exposure to language and read-alouds before the age of three. Research that we present in our book shows that the number of words heard per hour before two and three predicts success at school and even IQ.
If you go to our website: ReadToYourBaby.com, you can read a lot of good information on literacy and language development in babies and toddlers.
The intention of this blog is to continue the conversation about anything related to baby’s language and literacy development.
There may also be an occasional reference to baby’s number sense too, as Caroline is now working on a book about babies and math. Yes, you heard that right! Babies have an innate number sense. Stay tuned!
