Question: Why Can’t I Skip My Twenty Minutes of Reading Tonight?
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Question: Why Can’t I Skip My Twenty
Minutes of Reading Tonight?
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Let’s figure it out –
mathematically!
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Student A reads 20 minutes five nights of every week.
Student B reads only 4 minutes a night…or not at all!
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Step 1: Multiply minutes a night x 5 times each week.
Student A reads 20 minutes x 5 times a week = 100 mins./week.
Student B reads 4 minutes x 5 times a week = 20 mins./week.
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Step 2: Multiply minutes a week x 4 weeks each month.
Student A reads 400 minutes a month.
Student B reads 80 minutes a month.
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Step 3: Multiply minutes a month x 9 months/school year.
Student A reads 3600 minutes in a school year.
Student B reads 720 minutes in a school year.
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Student A practices reading the equivalent of ten whole school days in a year.
Student B gets the equivalent of only two school days of reading practice.
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By the end of 6th grade if Student A and Student B maintain these same reading habits;
Student A will have read the equivalent of 60 whole school days.
Student B will have read the equivalent of only 12 school days.
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How do you think Student B will feel
about him/herself as a student?
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Some questions to ponder:
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Which student would you expect to read
better?
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Which student would you expect to know
more?
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Which student would you expect to write
better?
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Which student would you expect to have a better vocabulary?
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Which student would you expect to be more
successful in school and in life?
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Why Read 30 Minutes a Day?
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If daily reading begins in infancy, by the time the child is 5 years old, he or she has been fed roughly 900 hours of
brain food!
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Reduce that experience to just 30 minutes a week and the child’s hungry
mind loses 770 hours of nursery rhymes,
fairy tales, and stories.
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A kindergarten student who has not been read
aloud to could enter school with less than 60
hours of literacy nutrition.
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No teacher, no matter how talented, can
make up for those lost hours of mental
nourishment.
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Therefore…
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30 minutes daily: 900 hours
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30 minutes weekly: 130 hours
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Less than 30 minutes weekly: 60 hours
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[Source: U.S. Dept of Education, America Reads Challenge. (1999). “Start Early, Finish Strong: How to Help Every Child Become a Reader.” Washington, D.C.]