A Collaborative Approach To Promote Reading Among Youths

Abstract

Reading has always been regarded as a desirable activity. Efforts are being made to promote reading not only among youths, but the general public as well. How do we go about promoting reading? Unfortunately many people only lament the fact that children and young people spend more of their time viewing television instead of reading. We know that viewing television produces different effects compared to reading and yet we cannot simply tell the youths today that reading, in abstract terms, is better than viewing television. Also, we cannot merely continue to highlight the need to inculcate and foster the reading habit and interests of young people. Something more than that has to be done. We cannot but notice that while people often speak about promoting the reading habit, very little has been mentioned about how to actually help youths develop and enhance their reading and information gathering skills.