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Access to public libraries also affects how much children read.

Access to a school library results in more reading.

Children who are readers will develop acceptable levels of literacy.

Extrinsic reading rewards may not be necessary and may backfire.

Free voluntary reading results in better reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical development

Hearing stories has a direct impact on literacy development.

However, a rich print environment helps only when more reading is done.

If children read 1 million words in a year, atl least 1,000 words will be added to their vocabulary.

Larger school library collections and longer hours increase circulation.

Libraries are a consistent and major source of books for free reading.

Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading.

Magazine reading appears to promote more reading.

Malcolm X educated himself in prison by reading.

More drills for poor readers do not work.

Not one poor reader reported a lot of pleasure reading.

Outstanding high school writers reported extensive summer reading

Readers pass vocaulary tests. Nonreaders struggle.

Spelling is improved when reading is done.

Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone.

Those who read in a second language write and spell better in that language.

Without a reading habit, children simply do not have a chance.

Young people's reading choices are influenced by their peers.

Older acquirers progress more quickly in early stages because they obtain more comprehensible input, while younger acquirers do better in the long run because of their lower affective filters.

The better the school library, the higher the reading scores.

The central hypothesis of the theory is that language acquisition occurs in only one way: by understanding messages.

The child's reluctance to speak for the first few months of his residence in a new country is not pathological, but normal.