The Read Lab is celebrating the start of a new quarter with a newly published paper on the connection between language development and children’s verbal play abilities (see reference below). “Play ability?” you might ask. Can you measure children’s play? Well, Read Lab alumni, Sarah James and Andrew Weaver found a way, and they also found that the more clever (and silly) preschoolers got with their play, the stronger their verbal skills were – so maybe it’s not all just nonsense after all.

Another win for Dr. Seuss!

To read the full article:

Read, K., James, S. & Weaver A. (2017) Pie, Fry Why: Language play in children three to five years old. Journal of Early Childhood Research. Prepublished February 14, 2017. doi:10.1177/1476718X16664556