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National tests that will be taken by more than one million children this month were struck by computer problems, causing a nightmare for schools, headteachers have said.
Reading to young children stimulates their development and gives them a head start when they reach school, according to researchers who have reviewed studies on the effects of reading. Apart from helping their reading, sharing a bedtime story with a child promotes their motor skills, through learning to turn the pages, and their memory. It also improves their emotional and social development.
Teachers and scholars will next month call for an end to tricky spellings, like "receipt", "caught", "through" and "cough".
Speakers at the Spelling Society's conference at Coventry University will argue £18m is "wasted" each year teaching 15th-century spellings to 21st-century pupils.
Ministers will this week be under renewed pressure to scrap school tests for 11-year-olds amid mounting evidence that they undermine education standards and harm children.
Generations of children have been let down by so-called progressive education policies which have taught skills and "empathy" instead of bodies of knowledge, the shadow education secretary, Michael Gove, said yesterday.
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