Comment on Book people think they know why 9-year-olds stop reading for fun
LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 7 months ago
I know exactly what it was for me. I used to read all the time in elementary and middle school, right up until 7th grade. To encourage kids to read, they implemented a reading requirement.
Upon completion of a quiz, every book with a length of ten pages or longer awarded a point per ten pages.
key@lemmy.keychat.org 7 months ago
Similar here. The “you need to read through page 95 by Thursday” for years ruined it for me. For over a decade after leaving school whenever I’d try to read something I’d just obsess over the page numbers and how long until a chapter break. It’s only very recently I’ve managed to get mostly past that and actually been able to get into what I’m reading.