{"id":134,"date":"2010-12-31T09:27:03","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T17:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betherebedtimestories.wordpress.com\/?p=134"},"modified":"2010-12-31T09:27:03","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T17:27:03","slug":"new-years-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/read.betherebedtimestories.com\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"New Year’s Resolutions???"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you thought about making any New Year’s Resolutions for 2011? Here is a factoid to consider.<\/p>\n

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English-speaking mothers who begin reading to their children at a very early age have toddlers with greater language comprehension, larger, more expressive vocabularies and higher cognitive scores by the age of 2. Meanwhile, Spanish-speaking mothers who read to their children every day have 3-year-olds with greater language and cognitive development than those who aren’t read to. These results, based on research from researchers at the universities of Nebraska-Lincoln, Iowa State, New York, Columbia and Harvard, and from Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., are published in the July\/August\u00a0 2006 issue of the journal Child Development.<\/p>\n

– www.eurekalert.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s to a healthy, prosperous and literacy rich new year!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you thought about making any New Year’s Resolutions for 2011? Here is a factoid to consider. English-speaking mothers who begin reading to their children at a very early age have toddlers with greater language comprehension, larger, more expressive vocabularies and higher cognitive scores by the age of 2. Meanwhile, Spanish-speaking mothers who read to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,67],"tags":[75,70,63,93],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-tips-for-reading","tag-early-literacy","tag-literacy","tag-reading","tag-vocabulary-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/read.betherebedtimestories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/read.betherebedtimestories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/read.betherebedtimestories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/read.betherebedtimestories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/read.betherebedtimestories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/read.betherebedtimestories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/read.betherebedtimestories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/read.betherebedtimestories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/read.betherebedtimestories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}