So, if I have my father's blonde hair and my mother's brown eyes, then that's biological, inherited information I have received from my parents and therefore nature is responsible (Berk, 2013). ... I am reminded of my influence when my 2 year old and I read a book together. ... Then, when alone, she uses "private speech, or language used for self-guidance " (Berk, 2013, p. 275; Rolland, 2005) while playing the roles of mother and toddler reading the book together, which is both delightful and insightful for me to observe. If I were to give her a more advanced book, then I would ...

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We have also shown that R and W profited from meeting the words often, regardless of whether they were important to the story or occurred in information-rich contexts. ... This sounds like good advice at a time when uninterrupted attention to a long stretch of text is an increasingly rare experience for many people. ... However, one of the problems that our research confronted is that a single book or story offers few opportunities to learn new words through multiple encounters because the needed repetitions simply do not occur. ...

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