Interesting article on BBC news today:
"A study of reading habits of 300,000 pupils in 1,600 UK schools found many 13- and 14-year-olds opting for books with a primary school reading age.
Boys were particularly likely to read books which were less difficult.
Report author Prof Keith Topping says this could explain why teenagers' reading levels could "lag behind".
The average reading age of the books chosen by 13 and 14-year-olds was only 10 years, claims the report."
What are your teenagers reading? My three dss are dwelling happily in the dystopian nightmares of Charlie Higson's adult zombies trying to kill anyone under 14 (sigh) ...
Am I the only one who is really over the whole vampire romance/zombie killing-spree genres?
Thoughts (& suggestions!) please ...?
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Mrshighandmighty · 08/03/2013 12:43
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