i need facts about how much kids read. or any facts about kids reading i have a speech due tomorrow and i need help!!!! pleeezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
2006-09-27 10:40:33 · 6 answers · asked by kenzie 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
If you are looking for scholarly materials, I would try http://scholar.google.com/, in addition to any resources you might have through your school ("EBSCO Academic Search Premier" and "ERIC" would be good ones to start with). You are going to have to narrow it down a little more than you have.
2006-09-27 10:49:36 · answer #1 · answered by Drakokat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kids do not read enough. They play their video games, watch TV, and sneak out to play with their friends. With all that passive learning they do no actively participate in their education and their parents are doing nothing about it other than to find a bigger, badder and faster ex-box for to please their young ones with. 'Tis a sad day in America as our kids have forgotten how to read. What is really bad about this is that the general population of the human race has only been reading for a few hundred years and with this trend, reading may become something for only scholars and political leaders to enjoy and our kind will be back into the dark ages relying on everything we are told as being the gospel truth. Don't believe me? Show me in the Bible where human beings will be sent to a fire in hell to be punished through out eternity. Now THAT is how powerful reading or not can be.
Sorry about no numbers. I know that was what you were looking for. It is my experience that those numbers are skewed. The kid in my class who read the most books in the summer reading program did not have the ability to sign his own name as he graduated from high school. Why? He was illiterate.
Regards
Jon
2006-09-27 18:01:20 · answer #2 · answered by ĴΩŋ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kids first start to read by association, as they look at pictures in children books and start to get general ideas of words as they relate to picture, and how they sound. There are three methods of formal instruction: whole word, phonic and combination of two just mentioned.
2006-09-27 18:30:45 · answer #3 · answered by Mister2-15-2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shouldn't you have started this before today?
You need to be more specific here with regards to how old the kid is. Where the kid lives. (USA, Europe etc..) Is the kid a boy or a girl (girls tend to read more than boys)
Etc..
2006-09-27 17:48:01 · answer #4 · answered by ChemGeek 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i guess that would depend on the age and on the kid!! i ve always been an active reader since i was four and i read lots and at 18 years old i still read ALOT!
2006-09-27 17:46:02 · answer #5 · answered by CB 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it depends on their age
2006-09-27 17:43:48 · answer #6 · answered by D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋