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Feed Me A Story

What difference can reading aloud to a child for 30 minutes per day make?

If daily reading begins in infancy, by the time the child is 5 years old, he or she has been fed roughly 900 hours of brain food!

Reduce that experience to just 30 minutes a week and the child’s hungry mind loses 770 hours of nursery rhymes, fairy tales, and stories.

A kindergarten student who has not been read to could enter school with less than 60 hours of literacy nutrition. No teacher, no matter how talented, can make up for those lost hours of mental nourishment.

Hours of reading books by age 5

If you read 30 minutes daily……………..the child has 900 Hours by age 5

If you read 30 minutes weekly……………the child has 130 Hours by age 5

If you read less than 30 minutes weekly….the child has 60 Hours by age 5

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