The last word — We don’t read, okay?

These were some of the questions that were addressed in a survey we carried out at the National Literacy Trust last summer. We asked over 1600 primary and secondary school children whether they are readers. Nearly a third of children said that they are not a ‘reader’. However, when we asked them what types of materials they read outside of school, these non-readers professed to reading a wide variety of materials, including magazines, blogs, websites and emails.