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Sep 3, 2023 · Only 1 in 5 (21.5%) of boys who receive FSMs read daily, compared with 3 in 10 (31.1%) of girls who don’t receive FSMs. However, daily reading levels increased for boys and decreased for girls between 2022 and 2023 regardless of whether or not they received FSMs.
How often children read in their free time varied among children aged 5 to 8 in 2022, although over half (52.4%) said they read daily or almost daily (see Figure 10). 1 in 3 (32.0%) said they read 1-2 times a week, and 1 in 13 (7.9%) said they read 1-2 times a month.
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Fewer than 1 in 2 (47.8%) children aged 8 to 18 said they enjoyed reading in 2022. This is back on a par with those recorded in early 2020, previously the lowest level since we first asked the ques...
Fewer than 3 in 10 (28.0%) children and young people aged 8 to 18 said that they read daily, the second-lowest level we’ve recorded since we started asking this question.
Within the 8 to 18 age group, more 8 to 11-year-olds felt they received support for reading in the preceding four weeks. Almost 3 in 5 (58.3%) said their parents had encouraged them to read, compar...
Only 1 in 5 (21.5%) of boys who receive FSMs read daily, compared with 3 in 10 (31.1%) of girls who don’t receive FSMs. However, daily reading levels increased for boys and decreased for girls between 2022 and 2023 regardless of whether or not they received FSMs.
o As with reading enjoyment, the gap between boys’ and girls’ daily reading levels that opened up during lockdown 2020 persisted into early 2021, with more girls than boys reading daily in their free time.
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Children and young people’s daily reading levels are the lowest we’ve ever recorded: just 25.8% of children say they read daily in their free time in 2019; this is the lowest level we have recorded since we first surveyed children in 2005
Oct 18, 2021 · By far the most popular reading choice for children and young people is text/direct messages (92.4%) followed by in-game communications (87.4%). Still, 1 in 2 (51.0%) read fiction on paper in their free time while nearly 3 in 10 (28.1%) also read fiction on screen.
