What No Bedtime Story Means Summary
In “What No Bedtime Story Means: Narrative Skills at Home and Schools,” Shirley Brice Heath explains the advantages and affects of reading bedtime stories to children. Heath exemplifies the affects of reading bedtime stories to children, by comparing and contrasting kids from different families and communities. For the first child, the family viewed bedtime stories as a necessity. Through the readings, they believed that the child would grow up having an advanced vocabulary and would learn how to speak quicker than other children. From such an early age, these children were trained to listen to the storyteller, and to only speak when the teller required it out of them. Heath noticed that these children didn’t face much trouble in their school