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Teachers and parents usually call attention to the pictures when they read storybooks to preschool a new study suggests that calling attention to the words and letters on the page may lead to better readers.

The two­year study compared children who were read in this way in class with children who were e whose teachers most often discussed the print showed clearly higher skills in reading，spelling and e results were found one year and even two years later.

Shayne Piasta，an assistant professor of teaching and learning at Ohio State University，was an author of the study.

She says most preschool teachers would find this method manageable and would need only a small change in the way they already read storybooks in only difference would be  increased attention to the printed text.“If you get children to pay attention to letters and words，it makes sense that they will do better at word recognition and spelling.”

But she says research suggests that very few parents and teachers do this in a systematic than 300 children aged four and five were observed in came from poor families and were below average in their language thirty weeks，the children took part in a program called Project STAR，for Sit Together And project is based at Ohio tests the short­term and long­term results of reading regularly to preschool children in their classrooms.

There are different ways that adults can talk to children about can point to a letter and discuss it，and even trace the shape with a can point out a word and discuss the meaning of the print or how the words tell the they can talk about the organization of the print—for instance，showing how words are written left to right in English.

1．What do we know about the ways preschool children are usually taught?

A．Preference is given to the shape of letters and the organization of the print.

B．More attention is paid to the pictures，with words and letters being ignored.

 C．The focus of the teaching is on bringing them up to be good readers.

D．Equal attention is paid to the texts and the pictures.

2．What can be inferred from the passage?

A．No immediate benefit will be shown with the new teaching method.

B．Children from poor families usually have poor language skills.

C．Reading to preschool children will make them lose interest in reading later.

D．Teaching preschool children letters and words proves a big challenge for teachers.

3．Which of the following is TRUE about the study on language skills of preschool children?

A．Many teachers want to change their way of teaching preschool children.

B．Attention on the pictures has made the children uninterested in reading.

C．Teachers are often prevented from taking different approaches to language teaching.

 D．Project STAR aims to research into the results of reading books to preschool children in the classroom.

4. Which section of a magazine does the passage probably come from?

A．Fashion.  B．Economy.

C．Education.  D．Entertainment.

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