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Reading exposure: a (largely) environmental risk factor with environmentally-mediated effects on reading performance in the primary school years.
Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines - 1 Dec 2007
Harlaar Nicole, Dale Philip S, Plomin Robert
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BACKGROUND: It is widely believed that there are reciprocal links between reading achievement and reading exposure: children who read more do better at reading, and reading achievement itself promotes reading. We tested the hypotheses that these links arise because children's genetically influenced reading performance is correlated with their leisure-time reading exposure, and reading exposure, in turn, may have...
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