Decline in Reading Skills Among Students

A comparative prove by the ministry of information shows a worrying downward trend in cultivation attainments. This is unadorned from the dismal performance in reading skill raise undertaken by the students. Furthermore, according to a comprehensive U. S. -wide study of reading skills by the case Endowment for the Arts. (2007). Americans reading a lot slight a study on reading skills. Retrieved from www. washingtonpost. com . in Washington draws on a compartmentalisation of sources, public and private, and essentially reaches one conclusion Americans read less more. across other continents the same trend is worrying the governments.A look at the societal behavior and education trend would draw various reasons on the downward trend of reading skills. In nations where more than half the community lives below a dollar day, a focus on Africa and Asia, it gets intemperate for students in such families to have easy access to reading materials. distress is a major factor decr ease accessibility of reading materials to the less fortunate. Besdes not being able to access the reading materials, the students would rather sink much of the time trying to assist their family make ends meet by engaging cheap labor or attending to home chores spell the parents engage in fending for them.In the long run the trend is extended on to the next generation and the families remain in this vicious cycle. A technological focus of the society shows a higher advance in complaisant media with more of these technological advancement targeting the youth and young who have kick these markets with a bang. The students are more glued to these loving media development which increases their networking levels. On the rise is also the rate at which these students have turned to opthalmic media which takes much of their s time. People find it easier to have visual media other than involving themselves in reading which they perceive to be rather tasking.This factor has been sup port by our institutions which also turn most materials, originally produced for reading, into visual media reducing the chances of one having to read the materials than watching it, which is much easier and less involving. With all the higher up ,a more worrying trend is the teaching methods and skills passed to the students at drill . watercourse education curriculum focuses more on passing particular test rather than developing students reading culture. The effect is that the students are more provoke in passing tests and would want to use other methods to enable them pass the xams. The reading culture developed at the elementary level is last destroyed in these student and instead they get focused on other stuff and passing exams.The way students are taught takes, rather a passive line towards reading skills. In conclusion, reading skills among high school students ,is and has been on the decline due to three major factors inaccessibility of reading material due to poverty, technological advancement in the visual media and social networks which provide a leeway to the students to evade reading and teaching skill which gives reading skills an inactive approach.