Books appeal less to better readers

By Simon Vevers, Nursery World, 11 December 2003

Children are reading more confidently but enjoying it less, acoording to a study covering the five years since the introduction of the National Literacy Strategy. The survey by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) found that children are now less likely to enjoy going to the library and more likely to prefer watching television to reading than they were in 1998.

Children are reading more confidently but enjoying it less, acoording to a study covering the five years since the introduction of the National Literacy Strategy. The survey by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) found that children...

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