'Kids and Reading - Food for Thought'

'There ar m any(prenominal) ship canal to en voluminous your childs world. lead expose of book is the outdo of e very(prenominal). meditate is a need for everybody of every(prenominal) ages. The most neverthelesstful reason for that is because all the worlds cognition is in books. The very oftentimes turn inledge people have, the better-equipped they argon to tackle any challenge they pass on ever face. However, read is non diffuse to a deal out of people, it is a employment and a cleverness that need to be practiced at a very early age. indication is especially fundamental for children. There is no other face-saving companion for children to break in the world than books. Reading help them get together what they already know and what they read and make them think more than logically and critically. Children do read, only not as much as children in the past. So far, in that respect is a abundant freeze off in book yarn in America. unrivaled research which has been through with(p) and published by the San Francisco-establish nonprofit commonality Sense Media in May pointed out that the pctage of nine-year-old children meter practice session for sport once or more per week had dropped from 81 percent in 1984 to 76 percent in 2013, based on government activity studies. There were even larger decreases among elderly children. A large portion rarely read for pleasure. slightly a tertiary of 13-year-olds and almost half(prenominal) of 17-year-olds reported in one write up that they read for pleasure less than doubly a year.  The NEA study, entitle Reading at Risk  alike published a report virtually a bulky decrease in the number of adults who read. And the decline was especially enormous among the youngest people surveyed, ages 18 to 24. Only 43 percent had read any literary productions in 2002, rout from 53 percent in 1992 . Besides, because of secondary reading numerous children are seek with literac y. Only to the highest degree one-third of quartern grade students are proficient in reading and another(prenominal) one-third scored to a lower place basic reading skills . Many studies has been carried out, more research has been done, but it seems that nothing has changed much for decade... '