Why should your child read every night?

"Why Can't I Skip My 20 Minutes of reading Tonight?"

Did you know that one of the most prominent indictors of a successful reader is the amount of time spent actually reading?!

Student A reads 20 minutes 5 nights of every week.

Student B reads only 4 minutes a night or not at all!

Step 1: Multiply minutes a night x 5 times each week

Student A reads 100 minutes a week.

Student B reads 20 minutes a week.

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.

Step 3: Multiply minutes a month x 9 months for the school year

Student A reads 3600 minutes in a school year.

Student B reads 720 minutes in a school year.

Student A practices reading the equivalent of ten whole school days a year.

Student B gets the equivalent of only two school days of reading practice.

By the end of the 6th grade if a 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.

Which you think will be the more successfull reader?

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