Reading a book 'adds a year to children's education' - Telegraph

Reading a book 'adds a year to children's education' - Telegraph:

Nick Gibb, the School Minister, said that reading books for just half an hour a day could be worth up to 12 months’ extra schooling by the age of 15.

Today, the Department for Education will unveil plans for a national reading competition for children in the last three years of primary education and the first year of secondary school.