{"id":359,"date":"2014-01-29T17:38:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T16:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/?p=359"},"modified":"2014-01-29T17:38:49","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T16:38:49","slug":"british-study-on-pleasure-reading-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/2014\/01\/29\/british-study-on-pleasure-reading-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"British study on pleasure reading impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: small\">A study\u00a0 carried out\u00a0by the Centre for Logditudinal Studies, at the Institute of Education (one of the colleges of the University of London) supplies evidence that <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: small\">children who read for pleasure are likely to do<\/span> <span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: small\">significantly better at school than their peers.\u00a0 Strong reading ability affected children&#8217;s scores in maths, vocabulary and spelling.\u00a0Here is the link to the press release &#8211; it specifically mentions the importance of the library:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;font-size: medium\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mail.csulb.edu\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=zJaqfaWSQkKDyHqoyGD_McERqrym8NAIuFWYscTPWbowWVT-a0Ww-K-w1GwlE4w5O9ygrhw5zr0.&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.cls.ioe.ac.uk%2fnews.aspx%3fitemid%3d2740%26itemTitle%3dReading%2bfor%2bpleasure%2bputs%2bchildren%2bahead%2bin%2bthe%2bclassroom%252C%2bstudy%2bfinds%26sitesectionid%3d27%26sitesectiontitle%3dNews\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: small\">http:\/\/www.cls.ioe.ac.uk\/news.aspx?<\/span>itemid=2740&amp;itemTitle=Reading+for+pleasure+puts+children+ahead+in+the+classroom%2C+study+finds&amp;sitesectionid=27&amp;sitesectiontitle=News<\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/mail.csulb.edu\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=zJaqfaWSQkKDyHqoyGD_McERqrym8NAIuFWYscTPWbowWVT-a0Ww-K-w1GwlE4w5O9ygrhw5zr0.&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.cls.ioe.ac.uk%2fshared%2fget-file.ashx%3fitemtype%3ddocument%26id%3d1719\" target=\"_blank\">Social inequalities in cognitive scores at age 16: The role of reading<\/a>\u2019, by Alice Sullivan and Matt Brown. <span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: 300%\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large\"><span style=\"font-size: small\">CLS Working Paper 2013\/10<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study\u00a0 carried out\u00a0by the Centre for Logditudinal Studies, at the Institute of Education (one of the colleges of the University of London) supplies evidence that children who read for pleasure are likely to do significantly better at school than their peers.\u00a0 Strong reading ability affected children&#8217;s scores in maths, vocabulary and spelling.\u00a0Here is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6906,9546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literacy-2","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}