| infancy, kids listen to family members and often try to | | | | In the study, two groups of children with poor reading |
| replicate what they hear. As children grow, associating | | | | skills were examined to determine which learning |
| symbols with sounds becomes critical to language | | | | approach was more effective: traditional remedial |
| development, and experts say it's more important in | | | | reading, special education, speech and language |
| learning to read than most parents realize. | | | | tutoring or reading lessons built around sound and |
| When it comes to reading, children must discriminate | | | | symbol associations contained in narrative. The group |
| individual sounds before they can put them together to | | | | that was given reading lessons with sound and symbol |
| build words. Studies show playing rhyming games and | | | | associations enjoyed learning more and had a |
| sounding out words with your children helps develop | | | | dramatic improvement in their reading skills and fluency. |
| their reading skills. But what about watching television? | | | | Based on this and other research, one company has |
| According to a 2004 study published in The Journal of | | | | developed an enjoyable way for students to improve |
| Biological Psychiatry, associating symbols with sound, | | | | reading, comprehension and development skills early |
| especially in the form of narrative, plays a large role in | | | | on, and it involves watching television - specifically |
| the proper development of reading skills. | | | | children's movies. |