. In 2011, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development reported that “a crucial diff
erence between students who perform well in the PISA reading assessment and those who perform poorly l
ies in whether they read daily for enjoyment, rather than in how much time they spend reading” (p. 2). On average,
youth who read daily for pleasure score the equivalent of 1.5 years of schooling better than those who do not.