30 million words
I am convinced that facility with language is the key to reading, and, ultimately, to learning. It seems obvious. What is not obvious is why some students acquire this facility with relative ease while others struggle and often never catch up. The difference may be 30 million words, more or less. Thirty Million Words was written by Dr. Dana Suskind and appeared in 2015. Simply put, the book asserts that the key to academic achievement is early language development from birth to three years. At first, this may be difficult to accept. Nevertheless, Suskind demonstrates that low-income children will hear […]