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From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report in Special English.
Improve children's reading skills
提高儿童阅读能力
Teachers and parents normally call attention to the pictures when they read storybooks to preschool children.But a study published in 2011 suggests that calling attention to the words and letters on the page may lead to better readers.
给学前儿童读故事书时，老师与家长通常唤起儿童对图片的兴趣。但是 一本2011年出版的研究报告建议将兴趣引导至纸上的词组及单词，能将儿童变更更好的读者。
The two-year study compared children who were read to this way in class with children who were not.Those whose teachers most often discussed the print showed clearly higher skills in reading,spelling and understanding.These results were found one year and even two years later.
为期两年的研究比较使用这种方式的阅读与不是这种方式阅读的儿童，这些经常与老师进行讨论的儿童体现出高的阅读、拼写与理解的技能。 这个结果发现在1年至2年前。
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 teach.They already read storybooks in class.The only difference would be increased attention to the printed text.
Shayne Piasta,Ohio State大学的教育与学习专业助理教授，还是一个关于教育的作家，她说大多数学前老师都会找到他们自己的模式，并且他们准备改变一些他们的教育方式。他们准备在课堂上读故事书，并且将差别重点关注且标注。
Ms.Piasta says 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 way.
Piasta 女士说：要想让儿童们更多的注意至单词与词组，就要将词组认知与拼写做的更容易理解。但是她说研究表明 现在只是极少家长及老师有这么系统的做。
The report appears in the journal Child Development.
这个报告发表在儿童开发期刊上。
More than hundred children age four and five were observed in classrooms in Ohio and Virginia.The children came from poor families and were below average in their language
skills.This put them at risk for reading problems later.
在Ohio与Virginia地区，上百名4-5岁的儿童在教室里受到观察，这些孩子主要来自贫困家庭并且他们的语言技能较差，This put them at risk for reading problems later.
For thirty weeks,the children took part in a program called Project STAR,for Sit Together And Read.The project is based at Ohio State.It tests the short-term and long-term results of reading regularly to preschool children in their classrooms.
通过30个星期，这些孩子参加一个叫STAR的项目（一起坐一起读书），这个项目设立于Ohio State。It tests the short- term and long-term results of reading regularly to preschool children in their classrooms.
LAURA JUSTICE: "Where is it that a child learns something?Where is that space?We think we have identified it pretty well in terms of fostering young children's knowledge about print."
Laura justice:Professor Justice says this knowledge can be gained by having focused discussions when reading a book to a child.
LAURA JUSTICE:"We think we understand how information about print is transmitted from the adult to the child.And we've developed this intervention that really helps adults center in on the things that we need and want children to learn."
There are different ways that adults can talk to children about print.They canpoint to a letter and discuss it, and even trace the shape with a finger.They can point out a word:"This is'dog."They can discuss the meaning of the printer or how the words tell the story.And they can talk about the organization of the print -- for instance,showing how words are written left to right in English.
And that's the VOA Special English Education Report,written by Jerilyn Watson.I'm Bob Doughty.
suggest:建议
sense: 感觉、意识、识别力、理解
journal :日志、期刊、杂志
risk ：冒险
be base at : 设立在
regularly: 有规律的，整齐的 经常的 定期地
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