“Too Long, Didn’t Read”: The Research behind Prescriptions for Literacy
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https://doi.org/10.5860/cal13n4.33Abstract
“Children need to hear a thousand stories before they learn to read.”
—Mem Fox
This quote is the basis for the 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program, a reading club started by Sandy Krost at Bremen (IN) Public Library. Libraries across the nation are leaping to write grants and start programs of their own. Online discussion lists are bursting with questions about the research behind children hearing one thousand stories before kindergarten.
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Mem Fox, Reading Magic, Second Edition, Updated and Revised Edition (San Diego: Mariner Books, 2008).
Morag Maclean, Peter Bryant, and Lynette Bradley, “Rhymes, Nursery Rhymes, and Reading in Early Childhood,” Merrill-Palmer Quarterly 33, no. 3 (July 1987): 255–81, www.jstor.org/stable/23086536.
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