Kids & Family Reading Report
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Rise of Read-Aloud
Scholastic: 2019
The
Scholastic Kids &
Family Reading Report™ is a biennial, national survey of children ages
6–17 and their parents as well as parents of kids ages 0–5, in the U.S.
exploring attitudes and behaviors around reading books for fun. Released as
three installments, findings from the 7th Edition cover the topics of read
aloud, summer reading, book access, the latest trends in children’s reading
habits as well as what both kids and parents want in books.
Key
findings from The Rise of Read-Aloud, released in January 2019, reveal
that more parents are reading to their young children, the family read-aloud
experience is overwhelmingly positive, reading aloud is a partnership between
kids and parents, and read-aloud frequency is on the rise, although read-aloud
continues to decline after age five.
Additional
data from the 7th Edition will be released throughout the spring of 2019.
Around
the globe, the Kids & Family Reading Report has also been released
in Australia, Canada, India, and the United Kingdom.
Scholastic’s New ‘Kids & Family Reading’ Report: Reading Aloud Is Up
Publishing Perspectives: 1.28.2019 by Porter Anderson
Scholastic’s biennial family-reading study finds American families are reading aloud to their children more often, but falling fast as children start reading for themselves.
The
seventh edition of the biennial Kids & Family Reading
Report from Scholastic was released at the end of last week and
compiles the result of a survey on reading habits of American families.
With
a focus two years ago on diversity issues, as Publishing Perspectives reported, this edition
reports good news about the effects of reading aloud to children.
The quick version:
➤Reading aloud is important, and it’s on the rise since the study started looking for it in 2014.
➤But reading aloud peaks at age 5 and falls off precipitously after ages 6 to 8. Parents say they stop or decrease reading aloud because children can read on their own.
The quick version with numbers:
➤The percentage of parents reading aloud during a child’s first three months is up nearly 50 percent since 2014, and the number of 6 to 8 year olds being read to 5 to 7 days a week up 7 percent since 2016
➤While a majority of families (55 percent) said they read aloud 5 to 7 days a week before a child turns 6, this percentage then begins to decline dramatically, even as research shows read-aloud frequency can help shape a young child into a frequent reader
The quickest version:
Read aloud more to children’s, and keep doing it, even after they can read for themselves. READ MORE >>
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