I can’t wait to welcome all my new friends to our classroom library!! Until school starts I hope that you are enjoying the books in your home or making trips to the public libraries so that you have a book in your hand every day!!
Right now it does not matter if you are reading to your child or he/she is reading to you; what matters is that the children are engaged with books every day at home.
When a student reads 20 minutes every day, by the end of the school year they will have been exposed to 1,800,000 words and be in the 90th percentile benchmark for reading. If they only read 5 minutes they will be exposed to 282,000 words and be in the 50th percentile. Reading only 1 minute a day, exposes to only 8,000 words and will place them on the 10th percentile severely lower than benchmark.
