Posted by: Nancy Ann Wartman on: March 5, 2011
It takes 1000 hours of “lap-time” for young children to have the readiness skills in place to learn to read. –National Institute for Children’s Health and Development “Lap-time” means one-on-one interaction between a parent or caregiver and a child where meaningful language interactions take place. Types of lap-time activities include: talking, singing, rhyming, chanting, and, [...]