{"id":20875,"date":"2019-04-12T00:01:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T04:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=20875"},"modified":"2019-04-11T15:21:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T19:21:30","slug":"what-kind-of-reader-was-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/what-kind-of-reader-was-i\/","title":{"rendered":"What made me read?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new Scholastic Kids and Family Reading Report<\/a> was released last month, and it has some interesting statistics in it. For instance:<\/p>\n

“Three critical measures of a school-aged child\u2019s (ages 6\u201317) relationship with reading have remained fairly steady since 2010. In the seventh edition of the Kids & Family Reading Report:<\/p>\n

-Fifty-eight percent say they love or like reading books for fun.<\/p>\n

-Fifty-two percent agree reading books for fun is extremely or very important.<\/p>\n

-Thirty-one percent read books for fun 5\u20137 days a week (known as frequent readers); 41% of kids read for fun 1\u20134 days a week (known as moderately frequent readers); 28% of kids read for fun less than 1 day a week (known as infrequent readers).”<\/p>\n

“In the past two years, both kids and parents are less likely to say that when picking a children\u2019s book to read for fun, the type of book doesn\u2019t matter, it just has to be a good story (down 17 points among kids; 21 points among parents). Today, they are more likely to want several specific outcomes from their book selections:<\/p>\n

-More kids want books that make them laugh (up 10 points to 52%), help them explore new worlds (up nine points to 40%) and become familiar with new topics (up seven points to 26%).<\/p>\n

-More parents want these types of books, as well as those which help their child learn about the lives of others (up 12 points to 48%) and books that make their child think and feel (up nine points to 51%).”<\/p>\n

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This made me think about what kind of reader I was, and what elements supported me becoming a voracious reader. Mainly, I had access to books, was encouraged to read, was rewarded for being a reader, and saw myself in books. Here are some reflections on post-its.<\/p>\n

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\""I\""Me<\/p>\n

Lisa Nowlain is a youth librarian in Nevada County, CA. She is also an artist type at lisanowlain.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The new Scholastic Kids and Family Reading Report was released last month, and it has some interesting statistics in it. For instance: “Three critical measures of a school-aged child\u2019s (ages 6\u201317) relationship with reading have remained fairly steady since 2010. In the seventh edition of the Kids & Family Reading Report: -Fifty-eight percent say they love or like reading books for fun. -Fifty-two percent agree reading books for fun is extremely or very important. -Thirty-one percent read books for fun 5\u20137 days a week (known as frequent readers); 41% of kids read for fun 1\u20134 days a week (known as moderately frequent readers); 28% of kids read for fun less than 1 day a week (known as infrequent readers).” “In the past two years, both kids and parents are less likely to say that when picking a children\u2019s book to read for fun, the type of book doesn\u2019t matter, it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[830,23,16,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-lisa-nowlain","category-news-of-interest","category-professional-reading","category-projects-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}