Reading the same stories over and over again to young children may feel tedious sometimes, but it has a hugely beneficial effect ontheir learning, so I introduced a story of the week.
EVIDENCE
One study was carried out at the University of Sussex. There, psychologist Dr Jessica Horst and her team exposed a group of three-year-olds to a story containing a made-up word for an unfamiliar object. Some were read the story repeatedly over the course of a week, while the others heard it once. When all were tested, only the children who had heard the word more than once could remember and recall it.
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