Abstract
There is something unusual going on with reading and literacy among the Czech children. International assessment of reading literacy shows that the results of Czech children are poor as compared with other countries.
Over the last few decades, Czech children read books less and less. There is a strong connection between the reading behaviour, reading literacy and the results in assessments from education.
Children who are strong readers are also more successful learners and gain more possibilities to become applicable members of modern society. The aim of this paper is to describe the state of reading among Czech learners, find its strengths and weaknesses, raise reading literacy awareness and make the results a starting point for other researchers.
The researchers use the quantitative method. The questionnaire collects an extensive range of data from target population of 8-15 years old learners of primary and lower-secondary schools. (C) 2015 Published by Elsevier Ltd.