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How to Motivate Children to Read for Pleasure whilst Helping Others

Reading for Pleasure

As adults, we can all appreciate the sheer bliss of reading a brilliant book. Getting more children to read for pleasure is vital to their wellbeing and development, but one of the fundamental issues is giving them a good reason to do so. 

All too often, reading is tied up with assessments and being part of school work, detracting from nurturing a genuine enjoyment of reading. Giving children more ownership over what they choose to read, but also giving them motivation to want to read, are key to developing a lifelong love of reading.

Books have the power to change people’s lives. When children read for pleasure, the benefits are huge - not only does it help to build confidence and promote good mental health and wellbeing, but it gives them greater social mobility and opens up opportunities for them to succeed throughout life.

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Most parents and carers of children would agree that books and reading are essential for childhood development. Aside from the vital literacy and language skills gained through reading, books help support the mental and emotional wellbeing of children.


Perhaps, one of the most fundamental parts of reading for pleasure, is that it helps children’s imaginations to flourish by actively engaging their brains and helping them to picture people, places and worlds beyond their own.
What can be done to get, and keep, young readers interested in reading for fun in this digital-centric world? Firstly, let's take a look into some of the possible reasons for the decline in children reading for pleasure.


Barriers to reading books
Accessibility is a huge issue for children being able to read for pleasure. Public libraries have been grossly underfunded for years, forcing many to reduce their services, restricting the ranges of books available by preventing them stocking new books, or having to close their doors altogether.
A similarly dire picture is painted within schools, with decades of austerity leading to a lack of provisions within school libraries. It is shocking when confronted with the fact that, whilst it is a legal requirement for all prisons in the UK to have a library, there is no such requirement for schools.