With each new study or survey that comes to light, we know that every time we read less, increasing this decrease in the hours dedicated to reading either in digital format or in the traditional paper format, in adolescents. The reasons are many and some seem very clear, so through this article we are going to try to analyze in detail; Who is to blame that we read less and less?.
Not too many years ago, reading was one of the most attractive ways to entertain, cultivate or enjoy both for adults and adolescents, but times change and especially adolescents have found other ways to have fun such as video consoles, the world of the Internet networks or even mobile devices and their hundreds of applications available.
Most adults continue to spend practically the same time reading although some of them have been swallowed up by the possibilities offered by the Internet and spend hours and hours in front of the computer screen or with their tablet going to a website to another without remembering that the book they bought almost a year ago is still on the table without starting.
The most worrying case lies in the youth for whom reading a book is among the last priorities and prefer to use their smartphone, play the game console or surf the web before. Despite the wonderfulness of reading, it does not hook and technology is being the main culprit that every time it is read less. Surely many of those adolescents who do not read a single book a year but if they visit us regularly they will tell me that they already read the newspapers, WhatsApp or Facebook, but no matter how hard you try, that is not the same as reading a book. .
We already have the answer to the question that gives title to this article, the consequences of being read less and less are certainly very serious and we only need to take a look at our society full of young people who do not know how to construct sentences with a certain meaning, They make hundreds of spelling mistakes, their imagination reaches where their hand reaches and the only book they know is Belén Esteban's and the one with recipes that her mother follows to the letter for cooking.
Reading is essential to have fun and enjoy but also for hundreds of other things that are being left out.
There is something that I am very clear about this, also from my own experience. If you want to promote reading, you have to start from school. And that is precisely the problem, at school, in most cases we are forced to read the "classics" just because. Yes, I understand that you have to know who they are and what they supposed in literary history, but that does not imply that you have to read them, today and in my time too, for children 12-16 years old those books are a toston of aupa. I spent years with hives just thinking about reading something because of it. As you say at the end of the article, reading has to be fun, and reading those books IS NOT.
Fortunately, I regained my passion for reading but of course I already had it before a teacher forced us to read those "classics" for years. While in 6th EGB, a teacher did what I think should be done and that for me meant awakening my passion for reading. He told the students, "bring you a book that you liked very much so that all of you could make a library in class and that the rest of your classmates could read those books that you liked so much." That's the right way to do it
Let's not tear our clothes so much like grandfather chives, that reading, reading, has always been little read. As Atrus comments above, what you have to do is adapt the readings to the age / level of each one, and above all not to instill so much, and lead more by example. Children want to do what they see their parents do, and what cannot be is to pretend that my children read a lot while I am all day between soccer and Save me.
Totally agree with Atrus' comment. Forcing children to read the "classics" is a mistake. This does not encourage reading. These books are usually quite a bummer (regardless of whether they are considered masterpieces). Kids should be asked to read whatever they want, books like Jules Verne's for example ... over time they will read the "classics" if they want but first they have to be hooked on reading and that is best achieved with a "20.000 leagues of a submarine trip ”than with a“ Don Quixote ”.
This article says nothing. The title itself contradicts its content. It may be that less and less literature is read, I would like to know the source of that statement, but more and more is being read. I take this opportunity to recall that Jules Verne did not write literature.
That Verne did not write literature? Are novels not considered "literature"? What is literature for you? please illustrate us.
Hello,
In my case and the cases of people I see around me, I have to say that now people read more than before, but not the same type of content. Before, reading was about books and the like while now we spend a lot of time reading but other types of content (websites, emails, manuals, etc).
This has the positive part of improving our reading ability but we lose the didactic part in most cases (reading Facebook or an email does not help much in general to improve our culture).
What I do agree on is that reading has to be fun and otherwise it is impossible to hook young people. If you don't like history or a novel, it is not positive that you impose it on yourself as a punishment, since there are thousands of readings that you will surely be passionate about.
Regards,
I agree with Miguel, they read a lot, but not literature. For example, my case is exactly that, I can perfectly do several years that I do not read a book, but every day I read dozens of news, posts and other texts both on the network and on my own mobile.
Now the question is, is it about making our children read, or trying to get them to read literature, yes or yes?
Completely agree with Atrus. Reading contemporary classics as a young man, both South American and local writers, was a real torture.
I tried to read "The Red Sheet of Delibes" about five times (I had to make a text comment), but it was impossible. At 14 it was the most soporific book I have ever come across. Of course I do not doubt that Delibes is a good writer, but I did not want to read any of him.
Instead, I think it would have been more appropriate to read Selma Lagerlöf's "The Wonderful Journey of Nils Holgersson", or any Jules Verne novel, why not? Good literature doesn't have to be boring.
You say that the lack of reading is the fault of technology and you read on a screen?
You are asshole