More time reading books increases vocabulary, fluency and comprehension.1 A student who reads more than 30 minutes a day from kindergarten through high school will have read 250 times as many words as a student who reads less than 15 minutes a day: a 12-million-word divide that yields ~12,000 additional vocabulary words.2
Variety of Titles: Offering a multitude of books that satisfy individual interests allows students to spend more time reading while encouraging student agency.
Librarians in Ocean View: The knowledgeable and creative librarians have engaged with students to purchase new books for our libraries that they enjoy to build high quality book collections.
1 Anderson, R., Wilson, P., & Fielding, L. (1988), Growth in reading and how children spend their time outside of school, Reading Research Quarterly, 23(3) 285-303; Cunningham, A.E., and Stanovich, K.E. (2001), What Reading Does for the Mind, Journal of Direct Instruction, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 137–149; and Moss, B., and Young, T. (2010), Creating Lifelong Readers through Independent Reading, International Reading Association, p. 9, et. seq.
2 Mason, J.M., Stahl, S. A. , Au, K. H. , & Herman, P. A. (2003). Reading: Children’s Developing Knowledge of Words. In J. Flood, D. Lapp, J. R. Squire, & J. M. Jensen (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts (2nd ed., pp. 914-930). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Renaissance Learning. (2016). What kids are reading: and how they grow. Wisconsin Rapids, WI.