A recent study has taken place of children at a primary school level with regard to their reading habits. The results were pretty positive showing an overall increase in the amount of students saying that they read at home in their spare time and only 10% of children saying that they didn’t enjoy reading at all.
The study showed that still more girls chose to read for pleasure that boys did however disappointingly over 50% of all of the children admitted that they preferred watch TV to reading a book.
A quarter of the children said that they did not believe that their parents cared if they chose not to read at home with the majority of these children being categorised as from a more disadvantaged background.
The study seemed to be pointing the figure at parents to help to further increase these statistics by helping to encourage their children to take time to read at home for fun.