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A new report finds that students are not reading enough challenging texts to prepare them for college and careers. Here’s why it matters, and how you can change it.
In the decade-plus that Renaissance® has been publishing the What Kids Are Reading report, we’ve been celebrating students’ love of reading by drawing attention to the books they read the most. However, while reading is a wonderful way to pass the time, it’s also so much more—especially for K–12 learners.
Reading is, in and of itself, a form of active learning and a critical skill for understanding new material throughout a student’s academic and professional careers. With this in mind, this year’s report revealed a number of trends that merit our attention. Most urgently, students are not reading as much as they should to fully develop their skills, and they tend to read at the bottom of the recommended text complexity range for their grade level. Fortunately, there are steps teachers and administrators can take to reverse those trends.