Children’s Reading If you look
for a book as a present fur a child. You will be spoiled for choice even in a
year there is no new Harry Patter. J. K Powling’s wizard is not alone the past
decade has been a harvest for good children’s hooks, which has set off a large
quantity of films and an 1 (increase)sales of classics such as The lard of the Rings.
Yet despite that, 2 (read) is
increasingly unpopular among children, according to statistics in 1997 23% said
they didn’t like reading in all. In 2003, 35% did. And around 6% of children
leave primary school each year 3 (able)
to read properly. Maybe the decline is
4 (cause) by the increasing availability of computes games.
Maybe the books boom has affected only the top of the educational pile. Either
way, Chancellor Cordon Brown plans to change things for the bottom of the class.
In his pre-budget report, he 5 (announce) the national project of Reading Recovery to help the children
struggling most. Reading Recovery is wined at six year olds,
who receive four months of individual daily half-hour classes with a specially
6 (train) teacher. An evaluation either
this year reported that children on the school made 20 months’ progress in just
one year, whereas 7 (similar) weak
readers without special help made just five months’ progress, and so ended the
year even further below the level expected for their age.
International research 8 (tend) to find
that when British children leave primary school they read well, but read text
often for fun than those elsewhere. Reading for fun 9
(matter) because children who are keen on reading can report
lifelong pleasure and loving books is an excellent indicator of future 10 (education) success, according to the OECD,
being a regular and enthusiastic reader is of great advantage.