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The Christmas truce…emotional connections.

December 16, 2014June 29, 2015Liz Black

Research completed by the National Literacy Trust published on 1st December has provoked discussion. They discovered that 24% of boys read stories on screen longer than when they read printed books, compared with 12% of girls. There was a lot of discussion about this in the press, but everybody I heard talking about it said that […]

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