Thursday, June 19, 2008

Kids and Reading

Stats from the Scholastic/Yankelovich 2008 Kids and Family Reading Report:
  • 90% of children ages 5–17 believe they "need to be a strong reader to get into a good college"
  • 80% of children ages 5–8 believe reading for fun is "extremely or very important"
  • 56% of children ages 15–17 believe reading for fun is "extremely or very important"
  • 15 years is the age after which children are more likely to have read a magazine than a book in the past week
  • 29% of children who are "high frequency" Internet users are also "high frequency" pleasure readers
  • 8 years is the age after which more children go online daily than read daily
For more, go to Publishers Weekly.

No comments: