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@plurabelle
Nope - reading novels, is what I said. It's not really the same as reading newspapers. What you want kids to get from reading at a young age is the pure joy of being immersed in a story, a narrative. The 'quality' of a story, for kids, anyway, is in many ways determined purely by how enjoyable it is. Reading for pleasure, as a child, interestingly, is apparently the single biggest indicator of social mobility. I read that in the Guardian ;-)