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### Topic: Literacy

## [When Should I Stop Reading to My Child?](https://blog.kingscollege.qld.edu.au/when-do-i-stop-reading-to-my-child)

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You know how important it is to read to your child and you've diligently read bed time stories to your kids since they were tiny. But now they're reading *The Chronicles of Narnia* on their own, do you really need to keep reading to them? At what point do you draw the line and just let them get on with it?

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## [Why Daddy Should Read the Bedtime Story](https://blog.kingscollege.qld.edu.au/why-daddy-should-read-the-bedtime-story)

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*“Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin …”*

So began the famous BBC radio program, '*Listen With Mother*', which broadcast stories read by women to children (and their mothers) from 1950 to 1982.

Reading to children has always been associated with mothers.  Think of any image in the media depicting 'story time' and chances are it will be of a mother snuggled up with one or two children and a huge book.

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## [How to Read to Your Child](https://blog.kingscollege.qld.edu.au/how-to-read-to-your-child)

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*“The single most significant factor influencing a child’s early educational success is an introduction to books and being read to at home prior to beginning school.”*  
[National Commission on Reading (USA), 1985](http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED253865.pdf)

Research shows that children who read proficiently in the early school years generally perform better at every stage of their education.

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## [For the Joy of Writing](https://blog.kingscollege.qld.edu.au/for-the-joy-of-writing)

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I enjoy writing. My kids don’t (or so they say). Maybe it’s an association with spelling drills and school essay assignments but my boys do not naturally get excited at the prospect of putting pen to paper.  Oh, they have friends who keep journals and who write stories at home *for fun* (imagine!) but not my boys. 

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