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• Christina Clark  Britain's Next Top Model: Role models and their impact on literacy
  Forming the basis for a subesequent survey of young people and their role models, this brief paper outlines the available research on the impact of role models on young people's literacy. 29 Apr 2008
• Christina Clark  Why Families Matter to Literacy
  A brief research overview of the literature on the importance of involving parents in their children's literacy 28 Nov 2007
• Christina Clark and Kate Rumbold  Reading for Pleasure: A research overview
  This paper explores reading for pleasure, its importance, and its impact on literacy attainment and other outcomes. It aims to further our understanding of the value of reading for pleasure and to provide information that will enable parents, teachers and 10 Nov 2006
• Robin Close  Parental Involvement and Literacy Achievement
  This review considers published evidence on parental involvement for children from birth to the age of 16. The review and recommendations given by the National Literacy Trust would interest anyone concerned with issues involving parental influences in the 1 May 2005
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• Viv Bird and Rodie Akerman  Every Which Way We Can: A literacy and social inclusion position paper
  This position paper is based on our findings two years into a three-year project on literacy and social inclusion. The purpose of the paper is to review the evidence gathered and to provide a resource for those concerned with issues in this field 1 Feb 2005
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• Robin Close  Television and Early Language Development
  This literature review investigates the relationship between television and language development in children from birth to age five. 1 Apr 2004
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