Monticello Times 01.09.25 A community rally around literacy

Language skill development doesn’t begin in a classroom, nor is it confined to one.

Actually, it begins before birth. Long before students show up for preschool or kindergarten, their brain is being wired to read.

Infants generate approximately 100,000 new neurons each day — roughly a million connections per second — with approximately 80% of brain development happening in the first three years of a person’s life.

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