Brain On Reading

“This is your child’s brain on reading” by Carina Storrs. This article suggests that the brain networks involved in reading and listening to stories develop early. Kids who read less and have less exposure to books have less early brain development as suggested in this article. Before this study researcher found that children who were exposed to books at a young age excelled at many levels as they got older, stated by Dr. Barry Zuckerman professor of pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine. Barry Zuckerman founded a Reach Out and Read program where doctors and nurses gave books to poor children’s and their families as well as literacy advice. Barry Zuckerman’s Reach Out and Read program lost its federal funding about five …show more content…
“The more you read to your child the more you help the neurons in the region to grow and to connect in a way that will benefit the child in the future in reading”, stated Dr. Kraus. Researchers are now looking at which of these aspects contributed the most to stimulating children’s brain activity. I totally agree with this article, when I was younger my mother read to me every night, there was always a book or magazine in a wide range of our home. The ultimate merit of this article is all of the studies that researchers performed before coming to their conclusion, I believe that this article is a very credible research source because they have witnesses such as Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus, program director at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital as well as Dr. John R. Sutton, pediatrician at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. The overall importance of this topic is to inform families about the impacts reading has on the brain and to also encourage families to read aloud to your children at a young age because it can help them as they grow older to strengthen their memory as well as reading