How youngsters’ reading habits are evolving
Nidhal Guessoum
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A few weeks ago, the 2021 edition of “What Kids Are Reading” was published. This is an annual report that draws from data on more than 7 million youngsters in the US — the largest such yearly study of reading among children from kindergarten to Grade 12. It allows educators, parents, policymakers and communicators to gauge the evolution of children’s reading habits and devise strategies to improve the trends. This year, the effect of the pandemic was an additional factor that observers wanted to analyze, in addition to the continuing tug of war between digital and print media, between fiction and non-fiction, etc.