Children who read for pleasure are likely to perform better at school than those who don’t, according to a study from the Institute of Education. The research, led by Dr Alice Sullivan and Matt Brown, looked at the reading behaviours and the test results in maths, vocabulary and spelling of approximately 6,000 young people followed by the 1970 British Cohort Study. The research showed that children who read books often at the age of 10 and more than once a week at the age of 16 gained higher results. The area on which reading for pleasure was found to have the most positive impact was on the development of vocabulary.
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