{"id":2239516,"date":"2024-05-07T18:50:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T22:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/decline-by-nine-reading-for-fun-plummets-at-age-nine-data-shows\/"},"modified":"2024-05-07T18:54:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T22:54:25","slug":"decline-by-nine-reading-for-fun-plummets-at-age-nine-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/decline-by-nine-reading-for-fun-plummets-at-age-nine-data-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Decline By Nine&#8217;: Enjoyment of Reading Drops Sharply at Age Nine, Research Indicates"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdecline-by-nine-reading-for-fun-plummets-at-age-nine-data-shows%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2239516&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The summary highlights a concerning trend where \u2063reading for fun declines sharply around age nine, exacerbated by\u200d pandemic-induced learning gaps. Research shows a drop from 40% to 28% in children who love reading between ages eight and nine. Termed the \u2064&#8221;decline by \u2064nine,&#8221; this trend raises <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-school-district-promotes-segregated-black-parent-meeting\/\" title=\"California School District Promotes Segregated \u2018Black Parent\u2019 Meeting\">academic success<\/a> concerns as books for children aged eight to 12 experienced a sales decline. \u2064The impact of smartphones\u200c and increased screen \u2064time is also noted by experts.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Reading for fun sharply declines around age nine in an alarming trend that coincides with years of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/school-shutdowns-hurt-low-income-minority-kids-the-most\/\" title=\"School Shutdowns Hurt Low-Income, Minority Kids The Most\">learning loss<\/a> since the pandemic, data shows.<\/p>\n<p>Only 35% of nine-year-olds are reading at least five days a week compared to 57% of eight-year-olds, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scholastic.com\/readingreport\/navigate-the-world.html\">according<\/a> to the latest Scholastic survey on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe number of kids who say they love reading drops significantly from 40% among eight-year-olds to 28% among nine-year-olds,\u201d the Scholastic report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scholastic.com\/content\/dam\/scholastic\/site\/KFRR\/KFRR_7th%20Edtidion.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The trend, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scholastic.com\/readingreport\/navigate-the-world.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dubbed<\/a> the \u201cdecline by nine\u201d has concerned researchers, who note that reaching reading pro\ufb01ciency by third grade is a good predictor of academic success.<\/p>\n<p>Sales of books aimed at children eight through 12 were down 10% in the first three quarters of last year after dropping 16% in 2022, according to data from Circana BookScan.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, books aimed at other age groups are not underperforming compared to 2019, the data shows.<\/p>\n<p>Smartphones and more screen time could also be part of the problem, experts say, but the issue seems to go deeper than just screens.<\/p>\n<p>One of the main drivers of the \u201cdecline by nine\u201d appears to be the pandemic\u2019s school disruptions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s possible to overstate how disruptive the pandemic was on middle grade readers,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/childrens\/childrens-industry-news\/article\/92580-the-shifting-middle-grade-market.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Circana\u2019s Kristen McLean, an analyst in the children\u2019s book industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey lost most of their main sources of discovery, including bookstores, teachers, librarians, and seeing what their friends were reading, and at the same time they spent lots of time on screens of all sizes,\u201d McLean said.<\/p>\n<p>Another analyst <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/culture\/2024\/05\/kids-reading-fun-books-decline-by-nine-crisis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warned<\/a> Slate that children who are not encouraged to take an interest in books at this crucial age will not want to read books as adults.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, teachers increasingly focus less on encouraging young students to read entire books and more on assigning them excerpts, taking a lot of the fun out of reading, children\u2019s book author Joanne O\u2019Sullivan told Slate.<\/p>\n<p>The disinterest in reading for fun starting around third grade dovetails with disastrous learning loss in school over the last few years.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, one study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/lawsuit-forces-california-schools-to-spend-2-billion-in-covid-funds-on-learning-loss\">showed<\/a> that students would need an average of four and a half months of extra math instruction and just over four months of additional reading instruction to catch up to the typical pre-COVID student.<\/p>\n<p>Parents and teachers hoped kids would learn more quickly to catch up, but those hopes have not been realized. The same study showed fourth through eighth graders making even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kids-progressing-even-slower-in-reading-math-now-than-before-pandemic-new-study-shows\/\" title=\"New study reveals kids' slower progress in reading and math post-pandemic.\">slower academic progress<\/a> in reading and math in 2022 than before the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around age nine, the enjoyment of reading sharply decreases, reflecting a troubling trend linked to pandemic-induced learning gaps. Data reveals that only 35% of nine-year-olds read for at least five days weekly, contrasting with 57% of eight-year-olds, per the recent Scholastic survey. This decline highlights a concerning pattern impacting children&#8217;s reading habits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":2239517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-1303354141.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2239516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-1303354141.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2239516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2239517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2239516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2239516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2239516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}