{"id":220,"date":"2018-05-19T21:42:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T21:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/readlab\/?p=220"},"modified":"2018-05-19T21:52:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T21:52:27","slug":"some-sciencey-news-that-parents-can-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/readlab\/2018\/05\/19\/some-sciencey-news-that-parents-can-use\/","title":{"rendered":"some sciencey news, that parents can&#8230; use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This just in! A new academic paper from the Read Lab went to print last week (see <a href=\"https:\/\/authors.elsevier.com\/a\/1X23u39HO42778\">here\u00a0<\/a>) in the peer reviewed journal <em>Cognitive Development<\/em> describing the results of a study we started 3 years ago (yes, some of our research volunteers are already in first grade!). In the paper we describe a phenomenon that many parents and preschool teachers may already be aware of &#8211; when you read a child a little rhyme but leave off the last word, kids are pretty good at filling it in for you.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine reading these lines from Dr. Seuss&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Oh the Thinks You Can Think\u00a0<\/em>to a 3- or 4-year-old :<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cYou can think up some colors \/\u00a0<\/i><i>That\u2019s what you can do \/\u00a0<\/i><i>You can think about yellow \/\u00a0<\/i><i>Or think about\u2026\u201d \u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Most kids will jump at the chance to shout out <em>BLUE!\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0even if they can&#8217;t tell you\u00a0why.<\/p>\n<p>In our paper we document this ability of children to use rhyme to make word predictions (even when they don&#8217;t know what rhyme actually is), and discuss how important that ability might be for picking up words from storybook reading (since so many stories rhyme).<\/p>\n<p>Who knew vocabulary building could be so interactive and fun \ud83d\ude09 \u00a0 (hee, hee, we did!)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just in! A new academic paper from the Read Lab went to print last week (see here\u00a0) in the peer reviewed journal Cognitive Development describing the results of a study we started 3 years ago (yes, some of our research volunteers are already in first grade!). In the paper we describe a phenomenon that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/readlab\/2018\/05\/19\/some-sciencey-news-that-parents-can-use\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">some sciencey news, that parents can&#8230; use<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1632,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-read-recent","category-recent"],"gutentor_comment":0,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"readlab","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/readlab\/author\/readlab\/"},"qubely_comment":0,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/readlab\/category\/recent\/read-recent\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Read Lab<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/readlab\/category\/recent\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Recent Findings and Presentations<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"This just in! A new academic paper from the Read Lab went to print last week (see here\u00a0) in the peer reviewed journal Cognitive Development describing the results of a study we started 3 years ago (yes, some of our research volunteers are already in first grade!). 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