Comments on: Quiet, please? Why shushing may not be a thing of the past https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2014/10/quiet-please-why-shushing-may-not-be-a-thing-of-the-past.html What's happening to your library? Thu, 30 Oct 2014 19:30:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Shirley Burnham https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2014/10/quiet-please-why-shushing-may-not-be-a-thing-of-the-past.html#comment-6292 Thu, 30 Oct 2014 19:30:23 +0000 http://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/?p=8324#comment-6292 I expect you have seen this, as well. It is very interesting indeed:

Scoop : 29th October
RESEARCH | NZ | Library storytellers shown to contribute to early literacy

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED1410/S00150/library-storytellers-shown-to-contribute-to-early-literacy.htm

]]> By: Ben Lee https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2014/10/quiet-please-why-shushing-may-not-be-a-thing-of-the-past.html#comment-6289 Wed, 29 Oct 2014 01:36:35 +0000 http://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/?p=8324#comment-6289 Ian

Just on research relating to rhyme times (the email featured in your editorial this week, questioning whether there is any evidence of the impact of rhyme times).

Elizabeth Washbrook and Jane Waldfogel’s 2010 study for the Sutton Trust “Cognitive gaps in the early years” has been cited often, in particular their finding that:

“A child taken to the library on a monthly basis from ages 3 to 5 is two and a half months ahead of an equivalent child at age 5 who did not visit the library so frequently.”

Learning Wales host a copy at http://learning.wales.gov.uk/docs/learningwales/publications/140211-sutton-trust-en.pdf

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