Why can't I skip my twenty minutes of reading tonight?
Let's figure it out. . .mathematically!
(Source: Read Across America - NEA) The importance and cumulative effects of daily reading.
(Source: Read Across America - NEA) The importance and cumulative effects of daily reading.
Step 1: Multiply minutes a night x 5 times each week.
Student A reads 20 min. x 5 times a week = 100 min./wk.
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Student B reads 4 minutes x 5 times a week = 20 min./wk.
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Step 2: Multiply minutes per week x 4 weeks each month.
Student A reads 400 minutes per month.
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Student B reads 80 minutes per month.
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Step 3: Multiply minutes per month x 9 months/school year.
Student A reads 3600 min in a school year.
Student A practices reading the equivalent of seven and a half school days per year. |
Student B reads 720 minutes in a school year.
Student B practices reading the equivalent of only one and a half 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 53 whole school days.
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Student B will have read the equivalent of only 10 school days.
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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?