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Facts about speech: reading, as discussed in Britannica Compton's Encyclopedia reading: Learning to Read:

Children first encounter language at home. The flow of words from parents toward infants gets children accustomed to hearing speech and using it themselves. Once verbal conversation begins in the child, normally sometime after age 1, the sounds and rhythms of the native language begin to be absorbed. Parents also introduce children to reading when they read aloud to them. There are books for...
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