Research Based Report

Whether it’s children in American or Children in any European country the more that they read and the better they are at it the better of a student they will be. With the increasing demand for college educations and technical schools to work and take care of a family, reading must be something that is stressed from almost the time of conception. The following review of the literature confirms that reading more than just at home and in small groups will benefit the community both today and tomorrow; leading to a brighter and more knowledgeable future.

Parents aren’t reading enough to their children, I know as a parent we are busy but we have to make sure that our children are being read to and learning to read fluently. This isn’t just an American issue but a worldwide thing that needs to be fixed. Burnie (2015) journal excerpt looks at the study of Tasmanian households and the children starting school is 5.3 times more likely to be developmentally vulnerable if their parents do not regularly read to them or encourage their reading. The primary concern with children whose parents don’t read to them is the disadvantage that these children start out with when it comes to development. Burnie’s provides an analysis of the importance of the parents reading to children and supporting the idea that it is encouraging children to read outside of the home will help and counteract when a parent chooses not to read. By giving the children a different platform to read will be able to help counteract the parents who aren’t reading at home.

Studies have shown that those who learn in groups typically retain information better than those who do not. Blachman (2004) says that students with reading difficulties can benefit from supplemental reading instruction provided in small groups. Blachman did a study with one child versus the next. One of the children who participated in the small groups and another who did not and the study showed that it was well worth participating in small groups.

With education being such an important part of our lives we should make sure we educated the next generation. Knowing that all children do not come from the same background, we have to try and close the gap on parent’s behalf. Fruehwirth (2019) says better-educated parents tend to invest more in their children and are better able to teach them. This allows parents to take a break from educating their children and allow the volunteers of the storybook tent to promote reading which will help the community both now and in the future. Humble and Dixon’s (2017) excerpt allows me to speak on the lack of time that some military parents may have. Dixon shows 3 main reasons that poor children struggle educationally. Not that all military parents/families are poor but are for sure spending a lot of time working that could otherwise be spent on dedicating time to the child. It allows me to speak on both my childhood and current situation on what I’d like to provide. Coming from the not so wealthy part of Fort Worth, TX I was able to experience kids whose parents didn’t have the time at home to make sure they read books at night and showed up to school on time due to having to work the majority of the time to survive.

Reading and writing in the American society are two essential things, they are in direct correlation of one another according to Koutsoftas (2016) who looks at the study and evaluates how intermediate-grade children with and without written language difficulties fared on a writing task housed within the Hayes and Berninger writing process framework. The study was performed in 2014. The primary concern with children having writing difficulties, is that they struggle with story-building and spelling proficiency compared to those who do not and it is believed that reading plays a major factor.

This article breaks down and proves the importance of reading. It provides data showing the direct correlation of reading, writing and the understanding of the language. I believe that writing a summary during a standardized test is much more of a task if you struggle to read or fail to read often.

In society, we’ve seen numerous accounts of young males from lower-income communities being incarcerated. According to a study done in 2012 if prison base how many cells to have based on the amount of 3rd graders who cannot read. Saying if you can’t read, well we have a cell for you. Again this expresses the importance of education and reading. It supports my proposal showing the correlation between lack of education and young offenders. Snowling (2000) studies show that a way to prevent young offenders and re-offending is through educational interventions. We should be able to prevent the first offense by promoting reading at a young age.

How can a child who can’t read be expected to be successful at math or science? Wanzek (2017) study allows me to diversify my argument that reading is not just important to schooling when it comes to language arts but across all subject content areas. This shows that children need to be proficient at reading to progress in all subjects of school and multicomponent intervention allows children to accelerate reading abilities.

Conclusion

The future of today has been tarnished in parts of the world due to a lack of education, unfortunately. Education and the better reader is something that we can all fix with a little help from the community if just to promote reading and make it fun. Some many children are being left behind in education because the time isn’t being taken for them to learn how to read. This isn’t just an issue in low-income communities but globally. We should make a change in our community to help positively impact the future of tomorrow.