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    Why Should Students Read Twenty

    Minutes Every Night?

     

     

     

    LET’S FIGURE IT OUT---MATHEMATICALLY

     

     

    Student A reads 20 minutes five nights 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 minutes X 5 times each week = 100 mins./week

    Student B reads 4 minutes X 5 times a week = 20 minutes

     

     

    Step 2: Multiply 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 3,600 minutes a school year.

    Student B reads 720 minutes 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 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.

     

     

     

    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 himself/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 in life?

     

     

    This information was shared by Emmy Ellis

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