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April 22, 2015

Highlight: Kids and Family Reading Report

http://www.scholastic.com/readingreport/key-findings.htm
http://www.scholastic.com/readingreport/key-findings.htm

Scholastic recently released their Kids and Family Reading Report. You can read the key highlights of the report here. I want to highlight just one section, Reading Aloud at Home. Here are their key findings in this section:

  • More than half of children ages 0–5 (54%) are read aloud to at home 5–7 days a week. This declines to only one in three kids ages 6–8 (34%) and to one in six kids ages 9–11 (17%);
  • four in 10 children ages 6–11 who were read books aloud at home (40%) say they wished their parents had continued reading aloud to them.
  • When it comes to being read aloud to at home, more than eight in 10 children (83%) across age groups say they love(d) or like(d) it a lot—the main reason being it was a special time with parents.

Spotlight: Reading with Kids from Birth

  • Nearly three-quarters of parents with children ages 0–5 (73%) say they started reading aloud to their child before age one, yet only 30% say they began before the age of three months.
  • Six in 10 parents with children ages 0–5 (60%) have received advice that children should be read aloud to from birth; however, just under half of parents in the lowest-income households (47%) received this advice vs. 74% in the highest-income households.

There’s a lot more information in this report and it’s worth reading. Click here to access the whole report as well as to see infographics based on the data.

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