Reading for pleasure changes lives for the better.
Readers are active participants in the world around them and that engagement is critical to individual and social well-being. Research from the USA has indicated that people who read for pleasure are three times more likely than those who don’t to visit museums and attend concerts and twice as likely to perform volunteer and charity work. Just because someone is able to read does not mean that he or she will choose to do so. This is especially true with students who are thought to be at risk of reading failure. Children who read very little do not have the benefits that come with reading and studies show that, when struggling readers are not motivated to read, their opportunities to learn decrease significantly. This can lead to strong negative feelings about reading and create a vicious circle in which poor readers remain poor readers.