Pupils aged seven and eight had chosen books which an average reading age of eight years and 10 months.
He also said parents should be told their child's reading age as well as how they were doing against national targets.
In contrast to secondary school, primary school children were found to be choosing books which had a reading age above their own.
The former cemetery worker, who had the reading age of an 11-year-old, signed a statement confessing to the attack hours after Mrs Sewell was found.
There is also concern that there is a wide gap between the achievements of white and black pupils, with black 17 year olds having an average reading age four years behind their white counterparts.
The son of a Buffalo factory owner and a museum-store manager, Godin says he started reading business books at age 12.
Indeed, many publishing executives like to argue that the digital revolution could usher in a golden age of reading in which many more people will be exposed to digital texts.
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An annual report by Estyn, Wales' schools inspection service, found 40% of pupils arrive at secondary school with reading ages below their actual age.
In 1983-84 only 39.2% of 17-year-olds were found to be "adept, " or at a level appropriate for their age, in reading--a smaller proportion than went on to college.
Hazel Danson from the NUT, who teaches five and six-year-olds, says those who are reading quite well at this age might misread the made-up words, for example by mistaking "osk" for "ask".
The researchers looked at data on children featured in the British Cohort Study - a large group of people born in April 1970 - to look at the link between reading and maths scores at age 10, and earnings at ages 30, 34 and 38.
The survey also includes information about the home background of pupils - with signs that homework had increased in all age groups, less reading materials were available in homes and 9 and 13 year olds were less likely to be watching six hours of television a day and more likely to be using a computer.
In "the East" there is that age-old instinct for reading the wind and riding with the victor.
According to the Pew Internet Research Center, during the past year the number of Americans age 16 and older, reading e-books, has risen from 16 to 23 percent, while those who read printed books among the same age group fell from 72 percent to 67 percent.
"The ability to interact rather than just reading a text in this technology-driven age will probably drive more interest, " Tierney said.
Denton once chided his boyhood friend David Galbraith for marvelling to a reporter that at the age of thirteen Nick was already reading The Economist.
Even as a guest, I was prompted to enter my age and gender for a more accurate reading.
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Dylan Hurwitz remembers being disappointed at age 11 -- soon after he began reading the books -- when an owl didn't arrive to whisk him away to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Yet, while we all enjoy reading articles about new gizmos, electric cars, space-age wind turbines, and of course, the latest advances in photovoltaics, these advancements represent only the surface of a much larger, systemic change in the way we will soon conduct business.
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As summer vacations draw to a close and school-age children begin the mad scramble to fulfill their summer reading obligations, author Lesley M.
The team had to experience various technology and publishing process to provide readers with an enhanced reading experience ( Inside Sports Illustrated: Building a Magazine for the Digital Age).
Upon reading of Ms. Hoang's travails, Mr. Lesser, whose own age has been corrected on the site, decided to take action.
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By 2002 the government wants 80% of 11-year-olds to be at the right reading level, and 75% to have the maths skills expected of children that age.
And the figures still show 50-odd per cent of pupils at the age of 11 are not by your own light properly equipped for secondary school in reading, writing and particularly in arithmetic.
Before her show, Raitt joked about her age, noting she needs two pairs of glasses -- one for distance and one for reading.
The two studies presented in the report, which involved more than 90 children ranging in age from 18 to 30 months, examined parent-child discourse about emotions during picture-book reading.
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