Opinion

Is the future of reading digital?

The National Literacy Trust’s head of school programmes, Martin Galway, says that schools should embrace eBooks, which will equip young children for the future and instil a love of reading.

In the early 2000s we saw the dawn of eBooks and, with this innovation, nervousness that eBooks would mark the death of the traditional printed book. This isn’t without precedent. The death of the novel had been heralded early in the previous century. And we know how that panned out.

Fast forward to today and we have teachers across the country harnessing the benefits of digital reading resources, as a key ingredient in the wider diet of their reading offers. Such practice helps us better appreciate the difference these resources are making for students – irrespective of age, gender, background or ability.

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