The researchers say that the findings could help parents choose books which boost their children's interest and motivation to learn and read, which in turn can improve their literacy and language skills in early childhood. Photo: AFP
IF you're not sure how to entertain the kids during the current Covid-19 lockdowns, then new US research has found that giving them books that explain how and why things work could keep them more engaged than a simple storybook. Carried out by researchers at Vanderbilt University, the new study looked at 48 children aged three to four years old from Austin, Texas.
The children were asked to listen to an adult reading them two books about animals, which were matched for their content and complexity, but had different amounts of causal information in the story: while one book explained why animals behave and look the way they do, the other simply described animals' features and behaviours
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