These tips will help to encourage your reluctant reader to love books again
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The benefits of reading for children are clear. Not only does it improve brain connectivity, increase comprehension and vocabulary, and enable empathy – it also opens up a whole world of creativity and imagination that is both stress-relieving and simply a whole lot of fun.
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Reading should be a joy for children, not a chore. But research from 2014 by the National Literacy Trust found that children’s reading enjoyment drops off alarmingly between the ages of 8 and 16. It’s especially marked for boys, 72% of whom enjoyed reading at ages 8-11, plummeting to just 36% at ages 14-16 (compared to 83% of girls saying they enjoyed reading at ages 8-11, dropping to 53% at ages 14-16).