Reading 20 Minutes Daily = Tremendous Benefits
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I popped into Mr. Martin's room this week in time to hear him share with his third and fourth graders why their twenty minutes of reading a night is a big deal, a lesson he discovered when browsing Pinterest at the Perry Lecompton Unified School District's Website. He proceeded to share this poster, documenting the difference between boys and girls who read twenty minutes a day, five minutes a day, and one minute a day.
The difference in the number of minutes accumulated in a year shocked the class. The difference in the number of words the reading exposed them to blew their minds. Students who hadn't really felt a sense of urgency for this outside reading now had a powerful image to convince them. Fortunately for the students, they have a teacher who knows and loves books, and he is able to hook everyone up with a book that will make twenty minutes of reading feel like five. He is an amazing teacher, and I wish you all had a Mr. Martin next door to you.
Here is a very similar document. This is the one that Gail and Joan share at their Daily 5 workshops. It shows the effect on students when we provide an additional ten minutes of self- selected reading a day in class:
