Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Literacy in TWENTY MINUTES A DAY

How many books in Twenty Minutes a Day?

THE READ-ALOUD BOOK by Jim Trelease

USA Today's (March 19, 1991) Dennis Kelly calculated that reading twenty minutes a day, six days a week, the average reader would accumulate 104 hours in a year and 3000 pages.
The 3000 pages are the equal of Dickens' Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Great Expectations, and Our Mutural Friend; or five novels by Judith Krantz; or twenty-one John D. Macdonald mysteries.
On the other hand, if you convert the 104 hours to television shows, it comes out to about eight seasons of Roseanne.

Robert Anderson and other researchers conducted the mosst comprehensive study ever done on how children spend their time outside school and compared reading scores from when they were in second grade with their scores in fifth grade. They reported:
  1. Students who read the most also had the most success in reading between second and fifth grades.
  2. Students who spent more time eating with their families had higher reading achievement.
  3. Students who read the most came from classrooms where the teachers most frequently:
  • read aloud to the class
  • made a wide assortment of books available to the class
  • used incentives to motivate students
  • scheduled sustained silent reading during the school day
National Reading Incentive Programs:
Pizza Hut's Book It! http://www.bookitprogram.com/
Reading is Fundamental http://www.rif.org/
RIF's READ ALONG STORIES FOR KIDS
Animated Stories read & Story Songs sung aloud with highlights word by word.
Mice-tro Mozart: the Opera House Mouse
Calico Pie - Story Song
Reading Rainbow http://pbskids.org/readingrainbow/
Sylvan Learning http://www.bookadventure.org/
Get Caught Reading http://www.getcaughtreading.org/
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