Conclusion

There is lots of information on the topic "encouraging children to read". A lot of the older books on the topic deal with the more traditional ways this is achieved. More recently published books however do talk about using the internet to improve reading skills which then may encourage children to open a book. The main problem I encountered when researching the topic was that literacy is a very broad area and encouraging children to read crossed over into many other closely related topics.

The internet contains many forms of electronic data relating to the topic and this can be found on the very basic commercial websites and more authorative government and educational websites. The Premiers Reading Challenge shows how the internet is being used to get information to the people. There is a web page and the Premier is also on Youtube explaining the benefits of the challenge and the importance of reading.

Print and non print materials were both used to assess the topic and both had advantages and disadvantages in their use which is discussed in my report.

One common feature of the research results however was that reading to your children will have a positive influence on them.