Generation Xbox: ‘Alarming’ drop in fathers helping children to read
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Posted by: Sue Atkins
There’s an alarming study out by The Literacy Trust showing a drop in the number of fathers encouraging their children to read 🙁
The study by the National Literacy Trust shows one in three dads give no reading encouragement to their children to read at all – a 30 per cent increase over the past seven years.
Sadly a similar number are never seen with a book in their hands !
As a former Deputy Head and Primary School Class Teacher, I believe Dads are jeopardising their children’s chances of learning to become fluent readers. Study after study shows that those children whose parents encouraged them to read had higher literacy standards.
Read more here in The Independent
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