Erkekler de Kızlar Kadar Okuyorlar Ama Daha Yalın Kitapları Tercih Ediyorlar — Boys Read As Much As Girls, But Prefer The Simpler Books

Boys Read As Much As kadar Girls, But Prefer tercih etmek The Simpler Books

By Richard Garner, Education Editor

Monday, 1 March 2010

First the good news: boys are reading as much as girls. Now the bad: the books they choose are far less challenging zorlayıcı and easier to comprehend anlaşılmak than those selected by girls, and this gets worse as they grow older.

The findings sonuç of a major büyük study of 100,000 children's reading habits alışkanlık coincide örtüşmek with national curriculum test results which show that - at all ages - girls score more highly on reading tests. "Boys are clearly açıkça reading nearly as much as girls, a finding that may surprise some onlookers izleyici," said Professor Keith Topping, of the University of Dundee's school of education, who headed yönetmek the study. "But boys are tending eğilimi olmak to read easier books than girls. The general picture was of girls reading books of a consistently sürekli more difficult level than boys in the same year."

The gap boşluk in the standard of their reading habits becomes most marked between the ages of 13 and 16, the report says. The favourite girl's book in this age group is Twilight, by Stephanie Meyer, the first in the vampire romance series that has sold 85 million copies worldwide dünya çapında. This was rank sayılmak far more difficult to read than the boys' favourite, The Dark Never Hides, from the British novelist Peter Lancett's Dark Man series,illustrated resimli fantasy novels aimed at reluctant isteksiz teens and young adults struggling mücadele etmek to read.

The study notes that both sexes tend to choose books that are easier to read once they reach the age of 11 and transfer to secondary school. Compared with a similar study two years ago, the Harry Potter author JK Rowling has tumbled yıkılmak down the top 10 most popular children's authors, from second to ninth place.

Boys, in particular, chose not to read her books, which are considered more challenging than many other children's titles. "Perhaps the lapse in popularity of the Harry Potter books ... has left boys with few high difficulty books they have the urge to attack," Professor Topping added.

One author to shoot into the top 10 for the first time - at number two - is Roderick Hunt, whose 300 The Magic Key books, following the lives of three children and their dog, Floppy, are used in 80 per cent of British schools to teach people how to read. Roald Dahl still tops the chart.

The report, commissioned by Renaissance Learning, which pioneers online reading tests widely in use in US schools to determine the reading age of children,recommends tavsiye etmek that teachers should closely monitor izlemek the reading habits of their pupils öğrenci, particularly the boys. "As with adult reading, kids will not always read to the limit of their ability," Professor Topping said. "Even high-achieving readers do not challenge meydan okumak themselves enough as they grow older."

The report recommends an expansion büyüme of the school library service, with schools encouraged to stock every book which appears in the top 10 favourites for each age group. The children's reading habits were confirmed by taking online quizzes on the books they had read.

The findings reverse the conclusions of a similar survey anket two years ago when boys were found to be opting tercih etmek for harder-to-read books than girls.