Swearing has often been associated with a lack of intelligence, but studies show that it could be a cleverer use of language than we thought.
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When you read to children, they develop abilities to express emotions through language.
Research shows that preschool children take characters from popular television shows and movies and blend them together to create complex oral stories.
Family meals – with lively conversation, storytelling and discussions of books and the tales they contain – feed children’s literacy skills.
Did your child just drop the F-bomb? What can you do?
Politicians should cut the language deficit for the sake of voters.
While the reading wars in education have raged for decades, most people agree that literacy is crucial for children and that the path to strong reading and writing skills begins in the home. But focusing…
Reading for pleasure as a child has been powerfully linked in research to the development of vocabulary and maths skills up to the age of 16. But does reading still have a part to play in the breadth of…
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