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EDMONTON, Alberta, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- Reading to kids is a crucial tool in English-language development, but not other languages, Canadian researchers said.
The study, published in Learning and Instruction, found a child learning to read English -- an orthographically inconsistent language where letters can have more than one sound -- need more help than a child learning to read in Greek -- a language with one-to-one correspondence between a letter and its sounds.
"We have found that in English, you need a rich home literacy environment -- reading lots of books to children," study leader George Georgiou of University of Alberta in Edmonton said in a statement. "It's absolutely necessary."
Lacking such support, English-speaking children run the risk of falling behind at least two years versus children learning to read in Greek, the researchers said.
Georgiou recommends English-speaking parents invest time in reading to their children or at least expose them to educational TV programs such as "Sesame Street" and multimedia tools such as spelling games.
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