According to a new study in Psychology, it has been found that children love to read storybooks which explain how and why things happen.
The research conducted by Margaret Shavlik, a doctoral student of psychology at Vanderbilt University in the USA, shows that early exposure to reading and language skills with the storybooks containing causal information is fruitful for them to get an early start in education.
Therefore, parents play an important role in shaping up the minds by making them read in their company with an engaging book that interests them to read more.
Shavlik with his colleagues involved 48 children aged 3-4 from Austin, Texas, as part of their sample study. Two different books (one having more causal information and one slightly less) were read to the children.
Though the children showed equal interest in both the books, the one with more logic and sequence of events stayed with them the most, the result showed.
According to Shavlik, it is indeed their natural desire to learn about causal stuff and if parents or teachers expose them to interesting storybooks, it will make them more interested in reading.
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