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Yet another report has shown children who read for pleasure are at an advantage. Yet many children still don’t have books

Yet again a report has come out showing that children who have books to read outside of school are well equipped to access education. The study, published in the journal Social Science Research, shows children with access to more books developed a direct positive relationship with literacy, numeracy and even IT skills in later years.

You know this already, though, because it says so in Reading: the Next Steps, [pdf] produced by your very own department in 2015.

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