There was a letter in last week's Nursery World (now I'm on maternity leave I'm lucky if I am only a week behind) from Dr Sebastian Suggate, who has carried out research suggesting that learning to read early on does not necessarily make a child a better reader. In his letter he responds to another writer who said that early reading can lead to a wider vocab by asserting that "it is highly unlikely that children's language is improved by reading, until they are in their fourth or fifth year of school, simply because the richness of language found in books that young children read is inferior to what they could obtain from oral discourse."
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