{"id":10146,"date":"2024-04-08T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T10:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=10146"},"modified":"2024-04-12T06:41:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T06:41:02","slug":"study-shows-children-need-to-read-print-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=10146","title":{"rendered":"Study Shows Children Need to Read Print Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/study-shows-children-need-to-read-print-books\/\">https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/study-shows-children-need-to-read-print-books\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Research is showing that young children need the experience of reading print books for proper brain development, not just digital reading. For older children, significant research shows that comprehension suffers when they read on a screen. A study by the Reboot Foundation found that \u201cfourth-grade students who reported using tablets in \u2018all or almost all\u2019 classes scored fourteen points lower on the reading exam than students who reported \u2018never\u2019 using classroom tablets. Researchers called the score gap \u201cequivalent to a full grade level\u201d of learning.<\/p>\n<p>Parents, the lesson here is buy print books! Read them to and with your young children. Make sure older children read print books at least as much as they read online. There\u2019s a strong correlation between the tactile experience of holding a book while we\u2019re reading and actually understanding what we read. Let\u2019s build strong readers and thinkers.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/\">WIFamilyCouncil.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/study-shows-children-need-to-read-print-books\/ Research is showing that young children need the experience&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wfc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10147,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10146\/revisions\/10147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}