reading

Today the American Academy of Pediatrics announced a new policy: doctors will tell parents to read aloud to their infants from birth. Reading, as well as talking and singing, is viewed as important in increasing the number of words that children hear in the earliest years of their lives. Children who have heard more words, have a distinct advantage in school. Read more at http://aapnews.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/06/24/aapnews.20140624-2   One of our Library’s strategic goals is to ignite a passion…