首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Children in the UK are not reading enough at home, favouring television and computer games instead, according to new research.
Children in the UK are not reading enough at home, favouring television and computer games instead, according to new research.
admin
2010-05-14
64
问题
Children in the UK are not reading enough at home, favouring television and computer games instead, according to new research.
The survey conducted earlier this month by Nestle Box Tops for Books, which asked parents about their children’ s reading habits, found that half of UK children spend less than two hours reading per week. A further one in 10 had not read a book in the past month, and of those who do read regularly, one in four avoid non-fiction titles. More than half of the parents surveyed believed their children should read more non-fiction books.
"It is essential that young children read at least one book a week and, in particular, educational books," said family counsellor Jenni Trent Hughes.
But others believe such a stem approach to reading may not help children. "We can mm children off it by simply saying it’ s something they must be doing," said Amelia Foster, who runs Reading Connects for the National Literacy Trust, an organisation that encourages reading for pleasure to enhance classroom achievement.
Ms Foster said the survey results might not give children enough credit. Previous studies have found that 75% of 11 to 18-year-olds enjoyed reading, and 83% read in their spare time.
Past reading surveys have found distinct differences in the reading habits of boys and girls. Girls tend to be more enthusiastic about reading in general, but particularly fiction (perhaps helping to explain why Jacqueline Wilson, author of Sleepovers and Bad Girls, is the most borrowed author from public libraries), while boys are drawn to books about a place, subject, or hobby that interests them.
Nicola Davies, author of Poo: A Natural History of the Unmentionable, said while working with underachieving boys she found they responded to non-fiction better than fiction. "You can get them to write poetry but they won’ t read it;" she said.
Ms Davies would like to see children’ s non-fiction take off in the way adult non-fiction has in recent years, thanks largely to titles like Longitude that employ strong narratives. This may encourage boys to read more, she said.
"There’ s a lot of really crap non-fiction out there. It’ s absolute ’ paint by numbers, pile them high, and sell them cheap’. But it’ s not really addressing the issue. Non-fiction as it is cutting offa whole route into reading, especially for boys," added Ms Davies.
But the consequences of these trends may run deeper. Some worry that steering clear of non-fiction may effect the development of a child’ s imagination, even going so far as to impact their future career choices.
Nicola Jones credits her choice of studying zoology at university to her childhood Encyclopedia Britannica. "There was this fantastic bit in the back on transparencies of human bodies, and it absolutely fired my imagination about the workings of the human body. Children’ s imagination needs all sorts of fuel. And that’ s what’ s going to drive them, give them intrinsic motivation. It’ s what makes your intellectual cars go." For this reason Ms Jones is planning a conference next year that will address how non-fiction can be transformed into something more children will want to read.
Which of the following statements is true according to this passage?
选项
A、Most of the parents under survey think children should read more non-fiction than fiction.
B、National Literacy Trust encourages children to treat reading as a labor of love.
C、The status-quo of books of non-fiction in the market is satisfying.
D、Non-fiction contributes more than fiction to the development of children’ s intellect.
答案
B
解析
第四段中作者提到“…National Literacy Trust,an organisation that encourages reading for pleasure to enhance classroom achievement.”意思是该组织鼓励孩子们把阅读当作一种乐趣,符合答案B。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/peqO777K
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
Thewebhasn’tchangedthefundamentalsofsmartinvesting.Ithasmadeiteasiertoinvest,buttheproblemwithonlineinvesti
Augustwasonceatimefordreaming,wanderingtheemptystreetsofthiscity,readingsilly-seasonnewspaperstoriesafterale
A、Theemployeemonitoring.B、ThecitizenshipinIllinois.C、Massmediapermits.D、Educationortrainingofemployees.A
A、Findwaystoreducethemedicalcosts.B、Teachpeoplehowtocarefortheirchildren.C、Helppatientstofindjobsafterthey
ThemanwhohasthejobofassessingclaimsforthecontroversialnewdisabilitybenefitsbelievesthatmorethanlmofBritain’
ThemanwhohasthejobofassessingclaimsforthecontroversialnewdisabilitybenefitsbelievesthatmorethanlmofBritain’
A、It’stoofarawayfromthedowntownareaofSydney.B、Thewomanchangedhermindanddecidedtoliveindormsinstead.C、Hoste
A、Educationalestablishments.B、Powerstations.C、Recreationalfacilities.D、Guillotine.D
随机试题
下列关于税收保全与税收强制措施的哪些表述是错误的?
“十一五”期间,按照“全面推进、突出重点”的原则,着力抓好()的节能环保工作。
【背景资料】某承包商中标一高速公路工程项目,包括一长1200m的隧道和隧道内和隧道两侧收费系统。施工中发生如下事件:事件1:该隧道施工实行安全责任目标管理,项目部决定由专职安全员对隧道的安全生产全面负责。爆破施工前,项目部招聘了6名持有钻孔合格证的员工
个别私募机构为完成其登记备案寻找具备基金从业资格的外部人员进行“挂靠”,这种行为违反了(),属于“在私募基金管理人登记、基金备案及其他信息报送中提供虚假材料和信息”行为。
企业级风险管理信息系统极为复杂,具有多向交互式、()的特点。
在相关分析中,如果两个变量间pearson相关系数r=0,这表示()。
一般保证中,主债务诉讼时效中止,保证债务诉讼时效不中止;连带责任保证中,主债务诉讼时效中止,保证债务诉讼时效中止。()
”叙述”是公文常用的一种表达方式,其叙述的人称主要有()。
1995年颁布的________规定了我国小学德育的目标。
应试教育重视的是()。
最新回复
(
0
)