07/05/2025
🧠📚 A child’s path to becoming a confident reader begins with strong oral language skills. Long before they decode their first word, they’re building the foundations for literacy through the development of oral language: by listening, babbling, speaking, playing with sounds, and making sense of the words they hear.
🧠✨ New Harvard research shows that signs of reading difficulty can show up way earlier than you might think, not in Grade 2 or 3, but as early as the toddler and preschool years.
👶📚 Early support = big impact later on!
Source: Mineo, Liz. “Reading Skills — And Struggles — Manifest Earlier Than Thought.” The Harvard Gazette, 23 June 2025.