1000
HOURS OF LAP-TIME TO BE READY TO LEARN TO
READ | |
It
takes 1000 hours of “lap-time” for young children to have the readiness
skills in place to learn to read. --National
Institute for Children’s Health and Development |
If we begin at birth, children who receive one-half hour a day of lap-time will have the developmental skills they need to read when they come to kindergarten. |
If we wait until they are two to three years old, it will take an hour a day of lap-time to prepare children with the readiness skills they need to read. | |
“Lap-time” means one-on-one interaction between a
parent or caregiver and a child where meaningful language interactions
take place. Types of lap-time activities include: talking, singing,
rhyming, chanting, and, of course, reading. |
If we wait until they are four years old, it will take two hours a day of lap-time to prepare children with the readiness skills they need to read. |
If we wait until children are five years old and entering kindergarten, it will take three hours a day of lap-time to catch these children up with their peers in order to be ready to read. | |
Find joy in every
journey | |
This
message brought to you from the Chinook Elementary Literacy
Team |