Reading Log
Why Your Child Should Read for 20
minutes Every Day
"WHY CAN'T I SKIP MY 20 MINUTES
OF READING TONIGHT?"
LET'S FIGURE IT OUT --- MATHEMATICALLY!
Student A reads 20 minutes five 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 20 min. x 5 times a week = 100 mins./week
Student B
reads 4 minutes x 5 times a week = 20 minutes
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/school year
Student A
reads 3600 min. in a school year.
Student A practices reading the equivalent of ten whole school days a year.
Student B
reads 720 min. in a school year.
Student B gets the equivalent of only two school days of reading practice.
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 while Student
B will have read the equivalent of only 12 school days. One would expect
the gap of information retained will have widened considerably and so,
undoubtedly, will school performance. How do you think Student B will feel
about him/herself as a student?
Some questions to ponder:
Which student would you expect to read better?Which student would
you expect to know more?
Which student would you
expect to write better?
Which student would you
expect to have a better vocabulary?
Which
student would you expect to be more successful in school....and inlife?
