Of Course, We Already Knew This . . . Babies Need Words Every Day
Abstract
Shortly before the 2014 Annual Conference, the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) was invited to contribute to the Obama Administration’s Thirty-Million Word Gap initiative. The word “gap” relates to the vast difference in the number of words that children from different backgrounds hear before they enter school.
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Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley, “The Early Catastrophe: The 30 Million Word Gap by Age 3,” American Educator (Spring 2003), www.aft.org/sites/default/files/periodicals/TheEarlyCatastrophe.pdf.
“Literature Review (2010),” Every Child Ready to Read @ your library, accessed January 23, 2016, www.everychildreadytoread.org/project-history%09/literature
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/cal.14n1.10
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