Reading is influenced by many external forces which students, specifically elementary students, have no control over. “For example, various studies have found that the child’s gender, race, family income, and parents’ level of education all are related to how much a child …show more content…
In the research brief, “Children, Teens, and Reading” it explains that in the Common Sense study which displayed the percentage of daily readers among eight year olds, showed a 15 percentage point difference between the high and low income groups.(Rideout 17) Proportionally the reading comprehension levels