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267                        <a href="https://kotoboo.org/index.php/2022/03/24/do-you-have-a-question-about-childrens-language-development/"><img width="760" height="400" src="https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic44-Questionnaire_colour-760x400.png" class="img-responsive wp-post-image" alt="Do you have a question about children’s language development?" decoding="async" srcset="https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic44-Questionnaire_colour-760x400.png 760w, https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic44-Questionnaire_colour-300x158.png 300w, https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic44-Questionnaire_colour-1024x539.png 1024w, https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic44-Questionnaire_colour-768x404.png 768w, https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic44-Questionnaire_colour.png 1216w" sizes="(max-width: 760px) 100v
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270                <div class="entry-date date updated"><a href="https://kotoboo.org/index.php/2022/03/24/do-you-have-a-question-about-childrens-language-development/">March 24, 2022</a></div>
271                
272                <h3 class="entry-title"><a href="https://kotoboo.org/index.php/2022/03/24/do-you-have-a-question-about-childrens-language-development/" title="Do you have a question about children’s language development?">Do you have a question about children’s language development?</a></h3>
273                
274                <div class="entry-summary">
275          <p>Ask Kotoboo! Complete a short 3-minute questionnaire to help us make our comics better, and at the end you will have the opportunity to ask a question about children’s language development. We will answer a lucky handful of those questions in our comic posts! Some&hellip;</p>
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279            <div class="entry-category"><a href="https://kotoboo.org/index.php/category/participateinscience/" rel="category tag">ParticipateInScience</a></div>        </div>
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283                                        <div class="col-md-6"><div id="post-3175" class="entry entry-small post-3175 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-languageathome tag-languageathome">
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288                        <a href="https://kotoboo.org/index.php/2025/09/27/should-i-correct-a-childs-language-mistakes/"><img width="760" height="400" src="https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic56-Mistake-correction_colour-760x400.png" class="img-responsive wp-post-image" alt="Should I correct a child’s language mistakes?" decoding="async" srcset="https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic56-Mistake-correction_colour-760x400.png 760w, https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic56-Mistake-correction_colour-300x158.png 300w, https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic56-Mistake-correction_colour-1024x539.png 1024w, https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic56-Mistake-correction_colour-768x404.png 768w, https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic56-Mistake-correction_colour.png 1216w" sizes="(max-width: 760px) 100v
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290        
291                <div class="entry-date date updated"><a href="https://kotoboo.org/index.php/2025/09/27/should-i-correct-a-childs-language-mistakes/">September 27, 2025</a></div>
292                
293                <h3 class="entry-title"><a href="https://kotoboo.org/index.php/2025/09/27/should-i-correct-a-childs-language-mistakes/" title="Should I correct a child’s language mistakes?">Should I correct a child’s language mistakes?</a></h3>
294                
295                <div class="entry-summary">
296          <p>Learning a language without any corrective feedback seems impossible. Imagine you are starting to learn a second language. Would you want to learn from a textbook that had no answer sheet? Yet, scientific studies show that caregivers rarely correct young children’s language mistakes. Sometimes children’s&hellip;</p>
297                  </div>
298                
299                <div class="entry-meta">
300            <div class="entry-category"><a href="https://kotoboo.org/index.php/category/languageathome/" rel="category tag">LanguageAtHome</a></div>        </div>
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309                        <a href="https://kotoboo.org/index.php/2025/09/27/how-do-babies-learn-grammar-from-tracking-patterns/"><img width="760" height="400" src="https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic54-How-grammar-is-learned_colour-760x400.png" class="img-responsive wp-post-image" alt="How do babies learn grammar from tracking patterns?" decoding="async" srcset="https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic54-How-grammar-is-learned_colour-760x400.png 760w, https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic54-How-grammar-is-learned_colour-300x158.png 300w, https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic54-How-grammar-is-learned_colour-1024x539.png 1024w, https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic54-How-grammar-is-learned_colour-768x404.png 768w, https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic54-How-grammar-is-learned_colour.png 1216w" sizes="(max-width: 760px) 100v
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310                    </div>
311        
312                <div class="entry-date date updated"><a href="https://kotoboo.org/index.php/2025/09/27/how-do-babies-learn-grammar-from-tracking-patterns/">September 27, 2025</a></div>
313                
314                <h3 class="entry-title"><a href="https://kotoboo.org/index.php/2025/09/27/how-do-babies-learn-grammar-from-tracking-patterns/" title="How do babies learn grammar from tracking patterns?">How do babies learn grammar from tracking patterns?</a></h3>
315                
316                <div class="entry-summary">
317          <p>Grammar can seem one of the hardest parts of language to learn. Yet, when toddlers start producing their first multi-word phrases, they make surprisingly few mistakes. Even the youngest babies have an inkling that grammatical items are different from contentful vocabulary, because of differences in&hellip;</p>
318                  </div>
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320                <div class="entry-meta">
321            <div class="entry-category"><a href="https://kotoboo.org/index.php/category/languageacrosstheworld/" rel="category tag">LanguageAcrossTheWorld</a>, <a href="https://kotoboo.org/index.php/category/languageathome/" rel="category tag">LanguageAtHome</a></div>        </div>
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325                                        <div class="col-md-6"><div id="post-3150" class="entry entry-small post-3150 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-languageacrosstheworld category-languageathome tag-languageacrosstheworld tag-languageathome">
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330                        <a href="https://kotoboo.org/index.php/2024/05/13/what-do-newborns-know-about-grammar/"><img width="760" height="400" src="https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic53-When-grammar-learning-starts_colour-760x400.png" class="img-responsive wp-post-image" alt="What do newborns know about grammar?" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic53-When-grammar-learning-starts_colour-760x400.png 760w, https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic53-When-grammar-learning-starts_colour-300x158.png 300w, https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic53-When-grammar-learning-starts_colour-1024x539.png 1024w, https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic53-When-grammar-learning-starts_colour-768x404.png 768w, https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic53-When-grammar-learning-starts_colour.png 1216w" sizes="(max-width: 760px) 100v
330w, 760px" /></a>
331                    </div>
332        
333                <div class="entry-date date updated"><a href="https://kotoboo.org/index.php/2024/05/13/what-do-newborns-know-about-grammar/">May 13, 2024</a></div>
334                
335                <h3 class="entry-title"><a href="https://kotoboo.org/index.php/2024/05/13/what-do-newborns-know-about-grammar/" title="What do newborns know about grammar?">What do newborns know about grammar?</a></h3>
336                
337                <div class="entry-summary">
338          <p>Grammar is the glue of language: it allows us to string words together into any sentence we can imagine. When we watch babies as they learn a language, we may notice learning stages. First, babies will practice making sounds, then they will say individual words,&hellip;</p>
339                  </div>
340                
341                <div class="entry-meta">
342            <div class="entry-category"><a href="https://kotoboo.org/index.php/category/languageacrosstheworld/" rel="category tag">LanguageAcrossTheWorld</a>, <a href="https://kotoboo.org/index.php/category/languageathome/" rel="category tag">LanguageAtHome</a></div>        </div>
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346                    </div><div class="row">                    <div class="col-md-6"><div id="post-3144" class="entry entry-small post-3144 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-literacy tag-literacy">
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351                        <a href="https://kotoboo.org/index.php/2024/05/06/does-telling-stories-to-a-child-help-build-literacy-skills/"><img width="760" height="400" src="https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic53-Narratives_colour-760x400.png" class="img-responsive wp-post-image" alt="Does telling stories to a child help build literacy skills?" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic53-Narratives_colour-760x400.png 760w, https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic53-Narratives_colour-300x158.png 300w, https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic53-Narratives_colour-1024x539.png 1024w, https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic53-Narratives_colour-768x404.png 768w, https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic53-Narratives_colour.png 1216w" sizes="(max-width: 760px) 100v
351w, 760px" /></a>
352                    </div>
353        
354                <div class="entry-date date updated"><a href="https://kotoboo.org/index.php/2024/05/06/does-telling-stories-to-a-child-help-build-literacy-skills/">May 6, 2024</a></div>
355                
356                <h3 class="entry-title"><a href="https://kotoboo.org/index.php/2024/05/06/does-telling-stories-to-a-child-help-build-literacy-skills/" title="Does telling stories to a child help build literacy skills?">Does telling stories to a child help build literacy skills?</a></h3>
357                
358                <div class="entry-summary">
359          <p>Narratives are often structured in a certain way. There are characters, settings, a plot, and a conflict and resolution. Narratives can take many forms, from story books to oral story-telling, and their tradition stretches back to the beginnings of human history and across cultures. Narratives&hellip;</p>
360                  </div>
361                
362                <div class="entry-meta">
363            <div class="entry-category"><a href="https://kotoboo.org/index.php/category/literacy/" rel="category tag">Literacy</a></div>        </div>
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367                                        <div class="col-md-6"><div id="post-3123" class="entry entry-small post-3123 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-literacy tag-literacy">
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372                        <a href="https://kotoboo.org/index.php/2024/04/25/how-can-you-help-a-child-visualize-a-story-as-they-read/"><img width="760" height="400" src="https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic52-Narratives_colour-760x400.png" class="img-responsive wp-post-image" alt="How can you help a child visualize a story as they read?" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic52-Narratives_colour-760x400.png 760w, https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic52-Narratives_colour-300x158.png 300w, https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic52-Narratives_colour-1024x539.png 1024w, https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic52-Narratives_colour-768x404.png 768w, https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic52-Narratives_colour.png 1216w" sizes="(max-width: 760px) 100v
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376                
377                <h3 class="entry-title"><a href="https://kotoboo.org/index.php/2024/04/25/how-can-you-help-a-child-visualize-a-story-as-they-read/" title="How can you help a child visualize a story as they read?">How can you help a child visualize a story as they read?</a></h3>
378                
379                <div class="entry-summary">
380          <p>Reading, at first glance, is about mapping sounds onto written characters. There are, however, other skills a reader needs, like visualization. If you read a book series before seeing the movies, you may have been surprised at how different your imagination was from the visuals&hellip;</p>
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393                        <a href="https://kotoboo.org/index.php/2023/06/26/how-can-i-help-a-child-who-stutters/"><img width="760" height="400" src="https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic50-Speech-disfluencies_colour-760x400.png" class="img-responsive wp-post-image" alt="How can I help a child who stutters?" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic50-Speech-disfluencies_colour-760x400.png 760w, https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic50-Speech-disfluencies_colour-300x158.png 300w, https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic50-Speech-disfluencies_colour-1024x539.png 1024w, https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic50-Speech-disfluencies_colour-768x404.png 768w, https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic50-Speech-disfluencies_colour.png 1216w" sizes="(max-width: 760px) 100v
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398                <h3 class="entry-title"><a href="https://kotoboo.org/index.php/2023/06/26/how-can-i-help-a-child-who-stutters/" title="How can I help a child who stutters?">How can I help a child who stutters?</a></h3>
399                
400                <div class="entry-summary">
401          <p>Speech can seem almost effortless. Sometimes, though, we may pause to find the right word or we may involuntarily repeat part of a word. These breaks in the flow of speech are called speech disfluency. Most often, speech disfluency happens because of the content of&hellip;</p>
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414                        <a href="https://kotoboo.org/index.php/2023/06/05/do-languages-have-rhythm-like-music/"><img width="760" height="400" src="https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic51-Rhythm-of-language_colour-760x400.png" class="img-responsive wp-post-image" alt="Do languages have rhythm like music?" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic51-Rhythm-of-language_colour-760x400.png 760w, https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic51-Rhythm-of-language_colour-300x158.png 300w, https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic51-Rhythm-of-language_colour-1024x539.png 1024w, https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic51-Rhythm-of-language_colour-768x404.png 768w, https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic51-Rhythm-of-language_colour.png 1216w" sizes="(max-width: 760px) 100v
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419                <h3 class="entry-title"><a href="https://kotoboo.org/index.php/2023/06/05/do-languages-have-rhythm-like-music/" title="Do languages have rhythm like music?">Do languages have rhythm like music?</a></h3>
420                
421                <div class="entry-summary">
422          <p>When you listen to languages you do not know, you may notice different rhythms. The timing of the sounds in a sentence, or the rhythm, can vary from language to language. You can imagine that each language has its own percussion beat. In some languages,&hellip;</p>
423                  </div>
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435                        <a href="https://kotoboo.org/index.php/2023/02/20/how-do-children-learn-language-so-easily/"><img width="760" height="400" src="https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Comic49-How-kids-learn-so-easily_colour-3-760x400.png" class="img-responsive wp-post-image" alt="How do children learn language so easily?" decoding="async" loading="lazy" /></a>
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440                <h3 class="entry-title"><a href="https://kotoboo.org/index.php/2023/02/20/how-do-children-learn-language-so-easily/" title="How do children learn language so easily?">How do children learn language so easily?</a></h3>
441                
442                <div class="entry-summary">
443          <p>Children seem to learn language almost effortlessly. This can appear in stark contrast to the struggles we, adults, face when learning a second language. Even more impressively, children are learning their native language or languages without access to an answer sheet: there is no dictionary&hellip;</p>
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460                
461                <h3 class="entry-title"><a href="https://kotoboo.org/index.php/2022/11/07/how-can-i-help-my-child-read-more-fluidly/" title="How can I help my child read more fluidly?">How can I help my child read more fluidly?</a></h3>
462                
463                <div class="entry-summary">
464          <p>Imagine a robot reading a sentence word by word: The. Owl. Sleeps. On. The. Tree.Now try reading the sentence silently: The owl sleeps on the tree. You may have almost heard yourself saying it in your head. It may seem that we read word after word monotonously,&hellip;</p>
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477                        <a href="https://kotoboo.org/index.php/2022/10/24/how-do-children-learn-the-difference-between-a-question-and-a-statement/"><img width="760" height="400" src="https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic47-Questions_colour-760x400.png" class="img-responsive wp-post-image" alt="How do children learn the difference between a question and a statement?" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic47-Questions_colour-760x400.png 760w, https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic47-Questions_colour-300x158.png 300w, https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic47-Questions_colour-1024x539.png 1024w, https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic47-Questions_colour-768x404.png 768w, https://kotoboo.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/FEATURED-IMAGE_Comic47-Questions_colour.png 1216w" sizes="(max-width: 760px) 100v
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480                <div class="entry-date date updated"><a href="https://kotoboo.org/index.php/2022/10/24/how-do-children-learn-the-difference-between-a-question-and-a-statement/">October 24, 2022</a></div>
481                
482                <h3 class="entry-title"><a href="https://kotoboo.org/index.php/2022/10/24/how-do-children-learn-the-difference-between-a-question-and-a-statement/" title="How do children learn the difference between a question and a statement?">How do children learn the difference between a question and a statement?</a></h3>
483                
484                <div class="entry-summary">
485          <p>There are many ways to ask a question. Imagine asking if a friend is coming to a party on the weekend. You may say: (1)  Is Jane coming to the party? Or you could say: (2)  Jane is coming to the party? In both cases,&hellip;</p>
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