Does Tv Promote Literacy

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Turn off the TV Promote Literacy!

The amount of time American preschool children spend watching television can have harmful implications on their academic and overall development. Children spending more than an hour a day watching television do not reap the benefits gained from spending quality time exploring the world around them, playing with others, and interacting with family, all, which promote learning experiences as well as stimulate their physical and social development. A child develops their language skills through listening and communicating in the context of real life situations. Children who spend time watching television, instead of engaging in creative play or learning activities, do not exercise initiative, experience intellectual …show more content…

Children learn to think, feel, and react according to the visual images they see in a virtual world. Television may hinder their ability to interact and communicate in the reality of their environment. School age children, who watch more than an hour or two of television, tend to do less homework and have poor listening and concentration skills. Preschool children who view up to two hours a day of entertainment shows, may have lower reading and language aptitudes, and are less likely to read books and other print media. Reading books not only reveals a world of knowledge to children; it also exposes them to fifty percent more vocabulary words prime time television. Children’s author Dr. Seuss once wrote, “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn the more places you'll go.” In conclusion, television can deprive children of real life experiences and human interaction necessary for them to develop their socialization skills and emotional intelligence. God reminds that if we “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old, he will not depart from it (Proverbs 22:6, English Standard

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