Who would have thought that:
. . . The analysis of New Zealand’s 15-year-olds in an OECD reading test says the difference between students with more than a year of early childhood education and those with none is equivalent to a year and a half of schooling.
The study says there is a similar difference between teenagers whose parents read to them in their first year of school and those whose parents did not.
It says students are also likely to be much better readers if their parents read books and talk to them regularly. . .
There is no doubt a lot more to the research than this report suggests but it does seem to be stating the obvious – readers breed readers.
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