Fathers can give their children an educational advantage at primary school by reading, drawing and playing with them, according to a new report published today. Research including Professors Mark Elliot and Colette Fagan from The University of Manchester found that children do better at primary school if their fathers regularly spend time with them on interactive engagement activities like reading, playing, telling stories, drawing and singing. Analysing primary school test scores for five and seven year olds, the researchers used a representative sample of nearly 5,000 mother-father households in England from the Millennium Cohort Study, which collected data on children born from 2000-02 as they grew up.

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