Of Course, We Already Knew This . . . Babies Need Words Every Day

Authors

  • Matt McLain

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5860/cal.14n1.10

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.

Author Biography

Matt McLain

Matt McLain is the manager of the South Jordan Branch of the Salt Lake County (UT) Library. He served as the chair of the ALSC Early Childhood Programs and Services Committee from 2013 to 2015 and now co-chairs the ALSC Advocacy and Legislation Committee.

References

Maya Shankar, “Empowering Our Children by Bridging the Word Gap,” The White House Blog, June 25, 2014, www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/06/25/empowering-our-children-bridging-word-gap.

Betsy Diamant-Cohen, “Changing Table Initiative Come to Fruition,” ALSC Blog, June 22, 2015, www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2015/06/changing-table-initiative-come-to-fruition.

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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Published

2016-03-22

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 1 (2016): Spring

Section

Features

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