Five tips to help you get your children reading for pleasure – with five books chosen by children

By Emma Vardy, Senior Lecturer in Developmental Psychology, Nottingham Trent University
Faith Bowman, PhD Researcher, Nottingham Trent University

Children are not enjoying reading or reading as much in their free time as they used to, according the National Literacy Trust’s (NLT) annual survey.

More than 76,000 children and young people, aged 5 to 18-years-old, from 405 schools across the UK completed the survey. Worryingly, those surveyed reported the lowest levels of enjoyment of reading and reading daily since 2005. Only 34.6% of respondents aged 8 to 18-years-old reported reading in their…

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