The number of words children read every year begins to decline when they reach year 7 and continues to fall throughout much of secondary school, the annual What Kids Are Reading report has revealed.
The survey is based on the reading habits of 580,309 school children in more than 2,750 primary and secondary schools across the UK.
Compiled by Renaissance Learning, the data is based on quizzes taken by pupils after reading more then 9.3 million books. In total, this amounts to 121,591,815,854 words – or an average of 209,533 per student. The data shows that pupils are reading an increasing number of words as they progress through primary school, but that this number begins to fall as soon as they enter year 7 and continues to drop until year 10.
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