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Paying attention to how multilingual children read can help foster reading for pleasure for all

By Sabine Little, Lecturer in Educational Studies (Languages Education), University of Sheffield

Just 34.6% of children in the UK read for pleasure, according to a 2024 survey by the National Literacy Trust. This is the lowest number since the annual survey began in 2005 – down from 43.4% in the previous year.

These figures are worrying, but a key to helping children learn to love reading could lie in the…

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