Two-year-olds with larger oral vocabularies enter kindergarten better prepared

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-08/sfri-twl081215.php

Public Release: 18-Aug-2015
Two-year-olds with larger oral vocabularies enter kindergarten better prepared
Society for Research in Child Development

Children with better academic and behavioral functioning when they start kindergarten often have better educational and societal opportunities as they grow up. For instance, children entering kindergarten with higher reading and math achievement are more likely to go to college, own homes, be married, and live in higher-income neighborhoods as adults. Now a new study points to very early roots of differences in school readiness, with growth in vocabulary playing a particularly important role. The study found that children with larger oral vocabularies by age 2 arrived at kindergarten better prepared academically and behaviorally than their peers. This information can help target early intervention efforts.

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