Why Can't I Skip Reading Tonight?
What difference can reading 20 minutes per day make?
To fully understand the benefits of reading aloud to children and what reading 20 minutes a day can do for our children, we have to move beyond the immediate and look at the big picture. Children typically enter kindergarten at the age of 5 so we need to look at the power of reading 20 minutes a day from the ages of birth to 5 years.
20 minutes x 30 days = 600 minutes or 10 hours per month
10 hours x 12 months = 120 hours per year
120 hours x 5 years = 600 hours over 5 years
There truly is "power" in reading, and a small investment of 20 minutes a day to obtain all the benefits of reading aloud to children can really have significant educational returns!