This paper investigates the importance of parents reading to their young children. Using Australian data we find that … parental reading to children at age 4–5 has positive and significant effects on reading skills and cognitive skills (including … numeracy skills) of these children at least up to age 10 or 11. The effects on skills more closely related to reading and …

environments (e.g. book availability), and family learning activities (e.g. reading books, telling stories, and singing songs) of … decomposition techniques, we show that early reading score differences between bilingual and monolingual children can be explained …

students with reading problems—Corrective Reading, Failure Free Reading, Spell Read P.A.T., and Wilson Reading. Conducted … programs affect both word-level reading and reading comprehension skills of students in grades three and five identified as … struggling readers. This report presents impacts on reading test scores one year after the interventions ended, when most of the …

By the time children leave primary school there is a large socio-economic gap in their reading proficiency. There are a … genes and gene-environment interactions in determining children’s reading skills, using the Avon Longitudinal Study of … Parents and Children (ALSPAC) dataset. We find that whilst these genes are indeed correlated with reading outcomes, effect …