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1. By adopting a few simple techniques, parents   read to their children can considerably increase their children′s language development. It is surprising, but true. How parents talk to their   makes a big difference in the children′s language development. If a parent encourages the child to actively respond to what the parent is reading, the child′s language skills increase.
A study was done with two or three-year-old children and their  . Half of the thirty children participants were in the experimental study; the other half acted as the control group. In the experimental group, the parents were given a two-hour training session in which they were taught to ask   questions rather than yes-no questions. For example, the parent should ask, “What is the doggy  ?” Rather than, “Is the doggy running away?” Experimental parents were also   how to expand on their children′s answer, how to suggest alternative possibilities, and how to praise correct answers.