Help your child read at home

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• Poor literacy skills in early life lead to a statistically significant relationship with later involvement in crime and lower job and life expectations.
• Children with poor literacy skills grow up much more likely to be excluded and vulnerable than their literate peers.
• Research has found that a love of reading is more important for children's academic success than their family's wealth or class
• If a child begins its formal school education with a love of books, it is more likely to succeed at reading in school.
• The best way to instil a love of books is to involve the parents in reading to and with their children from birth.

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