Family meals – with lively conversation, storytelling and discussions of books and the tales they contain – feed children’s literacy skills.
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Politicians should cut the language deficit for the sake of voters.
While the reading wars in education have raged for decades, most people agree that literacy is crucial for children and that the path to strong reading and writing skills begins in the home. But focusing…
Reading for pleasure as a child has been powerfully linked in research to the development of vocabulary and maths skills up to the age of 16. But does reading still have a part to play in the breadth of…
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Honorary Senior Lecturer, School of Education, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Assistant Professor of Multicultural Education, Teacher Education, and Childhood Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
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