From the Guardian a disturbing story that claims that reading stories to children at bedtime is in decline in England:
“The survey also found that in previous generations, parents who read bedtime stories did so more regularly than their modern counterparts. Only 13% of respondents read a story to their children every night, but 75% recall being read to every night when they were kids. On average, today’s parents read bedtime stories to their children three times a week.
The findings are all the more surprising since 87% of those polled believe that bedtime reading is vital to children’s education and development.”
I wonder what a survey of North American parents would show?
As Risley and Hart have shown, children’s exposure to vocabulary has important long term consequences.
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