Children’s reading rates have hit rock bottom - we need to get our kids back into reading for pleasure.
I was never a bookworm growing up. My parents love books, which is probably why I always avoided them if I could.A typical Saturday afternoon looked like this: Dad’s reading Great Gatsby for the hundredth time while Mum is flicking between the Financial Times and the new Sally Rooney book. My brother is on his fifth Harry Potter book of the day and I’m still pretending to enjoy Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
I never had this excitement as a child. When I saw my primary school classmates buzzing about their latest read, I could never understand how they felt like this.Lots of children are having the same experience now. The latest National Literacy Trust study, released last year, found that over half of young people aged 8-18 don’t enjoy reading in their free time.This statistic has decreased by 26% since 2005, when the survey began. This all-time low statistic should shame the education system.
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