THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN THAT READ BOOKS FOR FUN HAS DROPPED DRAMATICALLY IN RECENT YEARS. WHAT ARE THE REASONS FOR THIS? HOW WE ENCOURAGE CHILDREN TO READ MORE?
In today's world, fewer and fewer
children
like reading books
for fun and prefer to spend their free time doing other things. Firstly
, this
essay will discuss the possible reasons for this
tendency and, secondly
, it will analyse what can be made to change the situation.
To begin
with, it can be clearly observed that the main cause of a decreased number of infants who read books
is the rapid popularisation of technologies. This
is because of the fact that not only do not phones require concentration and attention which is obligatory for reading but also
the major part of youngsters have become addicted to gadgets. Therefore
, their daily routine consists of computers, mobiles, headphones but no one
remembers the existence of books
since they consider them to be boring. For example
, recent research has shown that the number of child books
being sold in shops has fallen by 20% compared to the last
decade.
However
, this
issue can be solved by a variety of measures and one
of them is the implementation of changes in the school
literature programme. This
is due to the fact that not only are children
's habits structured in childhood, namely during school
years,
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also
because not interesting novels may discourage children
from trying something new. As a result
, if the government takes it seriously and changes the list of obligatory literature being taught in schools it may increase the interest of students in paper books
. For instance
, one
study has illustrated that 20% of books
covered in school
are old-fashioned and have completely irrelevant ideas.
Eventually, to conclude, the major reason for the fact that the number of children
who read books
for fun has dropped considerably is that there is a huge popularisation of technologies and phone use. Despite this
, one
possible reason for solving this
issue is to make changes to the school
literature programme.Submitted by veronika-glinka on
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