Taken from essays in the GP publication :Reading: the Future
Stephen Matthews
BOYS ARE MORE RELUCTANT TO READ for pleasure than girls. It's not made easier when their fathers often expect them to be up and doing, not sitting with their heads in the clouds. Then there's the distracting world of video and computer games.
Yet boys can become as enthusiastic as girls about reading. They can also establish good reading habits well before the danger years of high school - as the Year Five and Six children in Unit 17 at Village Creek Primary School in the Canberra suburb of Kambah prove.
The children's teachers, Debby Jones and John Cowan, are both firmly committed to creating habitual readers. Jones says, `At the beginning of the year we might have had five kids from each roll group who weren't readers, but now we have less than two each.'
How do they go about encouraging a zest for reading?
Canberra Times, 23rd August 1995
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