According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress report, the percentage of students who “read for fun” every day has declined from 27% in 2012 to 14% in 2023.
Copies of"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," published in 2000 as the fourth in the series, and other"Harry Potter" books by British author J. K. Rowling are displayed at a bookstore in San Francisco.
In fact, by 2007, I could be confident many of them had read at least seven books for pleasure because 2007 marks the publication year of the final volume of J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” series, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.”In many cases, Potter-mania had transferred to other books and authors that came out in that era. “Twilight,” “The Hunger Games” and the early books of John Green were probably the most common.
One factor at work is the increasing embrace of prepackaged literature curricula such as Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s “Into Reading” and “Into Literature,” which are designed to help low-performing students pass standardized reading assessments, and which almost exclusively rely on short excerpts of much larger texts.
We know from long-standing research that what happens in the home has a significant effect on whether or not children become readers as adults, but the signals that schooling sends about the value and purpose of books are plenty important as well.
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