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Read independently during the school day
Read more books after being introduced to ebooks
Live in a home with 150 or moreprint books
Know their reading level
Have parents who help them find books and encourage
reading for fun in specific ways (learn how on page 23)
Have been read aloud to
5–7 days a week before
entering kindergarten
Currently be read aloud
to at home
Want books that “let me
use my imagination” and
that “have characters
that look like me”
Not go online using
a computer for fun 5–7
days a week
Rate themselves
highly as
enjoying reading
Strongly believe
reading for fun
is important
Have parents
who are frequent
readers
These kids
read an
average of
39.6
BOOKS
per year vs.
4.7 by
infrequent
readers
These kids
read an
average of
43.4
BOOKS
per year vs.
21.1 by
infrequent
readers
To determine what predicts kids’ reading frequency, more
than 130 measures were included in a regression analysis.
Kids
Ages
12–17
Kids
Ages
6–17
For each age group shown,
frequent readers are more likely
than infrequent readers to:
Kids
Ages
6-11
What Makes Frequent Readers:
The Most Powerful Predictors
The Kids & Family Reading Report™: Fifth Edition
Results from a nationally representative survey of 2,558 parents and children including 506 parents of children ages 0–5; 1,026 parents of children ages 6–17, plus one child age 6–17
from the same household, conducted August 29, 2014 through September 10, 2014, and managed by YouGov. Frequent readers are defined as children who read books for fun 5–7 days per week.
Whereas infrequent readers are defined as children who read books for fun less than one day per week. See the full methodology at