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Robyn Cox, Professor of Literacy Education, University of Tasmania

Why it’s important to read aloud to your kids – even after they can read themselves

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Is reading to your kids a bedtime ritual in your home? For many of us, it will be a visceral memory of our own childhoods. Or of the time raising now grown-up children.

Perhaps it involves a nightly progression through the Percy Jackson series or the next Captain Underpants book. Or maybe there’s a request to have Room on the Broom again (and again).

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