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[quote=Anonymous]I’m an academic language therapist, and I want to echo the recommendation for audiobooks. It’s not just that audiobooks allow the kid to keep building a base of content knowledge (which they do and is essential) but it keeps them learning new vocabulary. There are thousands of words that are commonly used in text that are rarely used in speech, even speech by super educated people. Text is almost a different language, with a subset of vocabulary and syntax conventions we don’t use in normal speech. Audiobooks allow a child to learn all those words and put them in their vocabulary, and then when they see them in print they are much more likely to be able to read them.

Many words are very difficult to decode if you don’t already know the word! The vowels could be pronounced short or long, the stress could go here or there, etc - being able to match up the sounds with a known word in a huge leg up.

The same is true with writing - you want your kid to get a feel for the music and rhythm and syntax of written language conventions. You can do that by ear as well as by eye, and that will help with their writing skills down the line.[/quote]

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