Literature Review: Reading to babies and young children – 2023
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Impact of Parental Incarceration on Children
First Thousand Days’ Evaluation Update – July 2024
Executive Summary The evaluation updates an evaluation undertaken in 2023. It focuses on the feedback from families, whānau and providers involved with the Storytime Foundation (Storytime), First 1000 Days programme, delivered nationally. Method The evaluation is undertaken in three parts: Literature scan There is strong evidence to support reading to babies. A review of the […]
Taonga mō ngā Tamariki Cost Benefit Analysis
Executive Summary The purpose of this report is to undertake a cost benefit analysis of Taonga mō ngā Tamariki, a Storytime Foundation whānau reading and literacy intervention based on an adaptation of the Early Reading Together® and Reading Together® Te Pānui Ngātahi programmes, and delivered to parents and caregivers in the care and under the […]
Interagency collaboration – Sustaining benefits for children and tamariki
Storytime Foundation Taonga mō ngā Tamariki and Care Pack programmes Dr Adrienne Alton-LeeKaitohutohu Mātanga | Chief Advisor Evidence SynthesisHei Kete Raukura | Iterative Best Evidence SynthesisEvidence, Data and KnowledgeTe Pae Aronui | Operations & Integration The Iterative Best Evidence Synthesis (BES) Programme| Hei Kete Raukura affords priority to evidence of the ‘how’ of practices and […]
Building Brains
Before birth and through their first few years, a child’s experiences influence how their brain develops. Genes provide the basic blueprint, but experiences affect how that plan unfolds. What happens to a child influences whether their brain will provide a strong or weak foundation for their future learning, behaviour, and health. The “Building Brains” video […]
Serve and Return
Serve and return interactions shape the way a child’s brain is built. When an infant or young child babbles, gestures, or cries, and an adult responds appropriately with eye contact, words, or a hug, neural connections are built and strengthened in the child’s brain that support the development of communication and social skills. This video […]
Reading and recidivism
How reading to their children can help prisoners break the cycle of reoffending How do prison reform, rates of recidivism, and reading to children all fit together? These might seem like odd things to all pull into the same sentence, but increasingly there is a convincing body of evidence suggesting that, along with other kinds […]
The value of reading to babies and young children
An overview of research into the importance of reading to tamariki There is a great array of research material that examines the effects of reading to babies and young children, with the majority focusing on preschoolers rather than infants, and this literature clearly illustrates that sharing books with young and very young children produces myriad […]
The importance of The First 1,000 Days
Retired paediatrician and early childhood advocate Dr Johann Morreau at TEDx Tauranga.