Question for parents: What British TV / Netflix shows are most popular for 7-8 year old children these days?

Delighted to have a Comment in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health introducing #DLD with co-authors Mark Boyes Shaun Goh Sarah Griffiths Lizz Hill & Essi Viding.
thelancet.com/journals/lanch…

Our children's books corpus (CYP-LEX) is trending! See the QJEP paper here journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17…

The Children and Young People’s Books Lexicon (CYP-LEX): A large-scale lexical database of books read by children and young people in the United Kingdom
Maria Korochkina, Marco Marelli, Marc Brysbaert, and Kathleen Rastle
buff.ly/3HxwX23

A bit of wisdom from my HoD's whiteboard which is easy to forget in this output-oriented academic world

Enjoyed talking about morphology today at this NATE event! If you want to learn more, check out this recent podcast with Christopher Such and Neil Almond 🇺🇦 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/thi…

👈🏆Our paper is among the most-read papers in #DevelopmentalScience ! 'Literacy skills seem to fuel literacy enjoyment, rather than vice versa' doi.org/10.1111/desc.1…
👉👩‍🏫teacher Rachel's classroom summary.
👇🧵my scientific summary
#TopDownloadedArticle Minna Torppa

A new fully #OpenAccess short online English vocabulary test. Implemented in Gorilla @gorillapsych.bsky.social with reliability data from a wide age range of UK participants

A great study (and accompanying, easily digestible blog post) outlining the importance of exposing students to increasingly complex texts, and the incredible value of morphological awareness. Worth the read. ⤵️

What Words do Children Encounter When They Read for Pleasure? 🏆🥇

Maria Korochkina & Kathy Rastle Kathy Rastle

KEY POINTS 🔑
Article 👇
rastlelab.com/post/what-word…

Hugely important research from Kathy Rastle lab on the importance of reading for children’s vocabulary development. TV is not a valid substitute. Here’s proof…

Short blog post on this work here rastlelab.com/post/what-word…

The Children and Young People’s Books Lexicon (CYP-LEX): A large-scale lexical database of books read by children and young people in the United Kingdom dlvr.it/T40GG7

'We found that around 40% of words used in children’s books do not appear on BBC television programmes aimed at children of the same age.'
'The large numbers of unfamiliar words mean that books present a unique opportunity for enhancing children’s vocabulary.'
Great blog from…

Did you know? 'more than 1/3 of words in books for young pple aged 13-16 do not occur in books targeting older primary school children. This means that reading is likely to continue to pose a challenge as children grow older' Such an interesting study.

''Because the number of rare and morphologically complex words increases as children transition through primary and into secondary school, texts will often be too difficult for readers with suboptimal reading skills...'' 1/2

Does anyone know how Flesch Reading Ease scores were mapped to US grade levels? The use of these grade level mappings seems ubiquitous but I can't find any actual reference to how or when that mapping was done.

Very interesting paper!

Phonics + morphology for the best chance as kids progress through stages of children’s books & will frequently encounter unfamiliar words.

(Sight recognition of 100 most common only a small help.)

Also: important to encourage/support wide reading!

What words do children encounter when they read independently? Read our new QJEP paper analysing the language in children's books (journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17…); and for an accessible blog post (rastlelab.com/post/what-word…). Congrats to lead author Maria Korochkina!