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This notion has a solid scientific grounding. One of the most important issues in literacy

is inciting interest in reading in the child and keeping it alive through adolescence and
adulthood

Suzanne Mol and Adriana Bus in their meta-study from 2011 compared data on
reading in very different age groups from pre-school through to university. They
ascertained that free reading (reading at one’s own initiative outside formal

studies) played an essential role in the development of literacy in readers of a
range of ages. The more one reads, the better become vocabulary and

understanding of text; this facilitates better academic progress in all other
spheres of study as information is mostly presented in the form of written texts.
This way a positive reading chain is created.