Vita Nova Christian Academy: May 2007

We are pleased to announce that we are accepting staff applications for the 2007-2008 school year. Please visit the www.vitanovaindy.org/faculty.html for more information.

Read to Your Children

"Learning to read begins the first time an infant is held and read a story. How often this happens, or fails to happen, in the first five years of childhood turns out to be one of the best predictors of later reading. A little-discussed class system invisibly divides our society, with those families that provide their children environments rich in oral and written language opportunities gradually set apart from those who do not, or cannot. A prominent study found that by kindergarten, a gap of 32 million words already separates some children in linguistically impoverished homes from their more stimulated peers. Children who begin kindergarten having heard and used thousands of words, whose meanings are already understood, classified, and stored away in their young brains, have the advantage on the playing field of education. Children who never have a story read to them, who never hear words that rhyme, who never imagine fighting with dragons or marrying a prince, have the odds overwhelmingly against them."

Maryanne Wolfe, professor of child development and cognitive neuroscience, Tufts University

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Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Staff Applications for 2007-2008

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