Girls are encouraged more often to read, despite performing better in reading assessments nationally and internationally. Here’s how parents and educators can help connect boys with books.
Sending text-message reminders and tips to parents can help boost their children’s reading skills.
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Providing text-message tips to parents on how to make their children stronger readers can make a difference, but only if parents don’t get too many or too few text messages, researchers find.
The current debate about comparability would be more concerning if 2018 results showed radically different trends compared to previous years, but they don’t.
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The current debate about comparability would be more concerning if 2018 results showed radically different trends compared to previous years, but they don’t.
SAT reading scores in 2016 were the lowest they’ve ever been.
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Most book clubs are white and middle-class. Even today, books and reading can presume a divide between Indigenous oral story-telling and non-Indigenous literacy.
Whenever you get a chance, even if it’s only ten minutes, engage in shared reading activities.
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Early shared reading is linked to a number of benefits for children, including better performance in NAPLAN, reading, writing, spelling, grammar and mathematics.
An illustration of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale “The Brave Little Tailor.
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Finding time to read to your children can be hard, but there are several ways you can make sure your child gets the most out of time for reading aloud.
Even when teachers are supporting specific learning difficulties (such as dyslexia), it’s important to expand boys’ repertoire of positive reading experiences.
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World Book Day is about more than just fancy dress, it’s about encouraging a love of reading in children and giving them the chance to be their heroes for the day.
South Africa needs to build a reading culture.
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The latest What Kids Are Reading report finds that secondary school students aren’t challenging themselves – and it could limit their choices later in life.