Success in School
Children who live in print-rich environments and who are read to during the first years of life are much more likely to do this.
What is learn to read on schedule?
The optimal amount of days to read to your child each week.
What is 7 days.
This is one major reason for children having lower reading achievement and higher drop out rates.
What is lack of books and reading time in the home.
The greatest amount of brain growth occurs between birth and this age.
What is age 5?
Researchers found that when family members frequently did this, their children learned almost 300 more words by age 2 than did their peers.
What is speaking to their children?
The single most significant factor influencing a child’s early educational success.
What is being read to at home?
Reading to your child this many times per week makes it twice as likely for your child to score in the top 25% in reading.
What is 3 times per week?
The percentage of preschool and after-school programs serving low-income populations that have no age-appropriate books for their children.
What is 80%?
By the time children enter this, the developing brain is virtually fully formed.
What is Kindergarten?
Children’s academic successes at ages 9 and 10 can be attributed to the amount this that they hear from birth through age 3.
What is talking?
Twice as important as parent's education level when determining success in school.
What is having books at home?
Being read to for this long is the best activity to stimulate language and cognitive skills as well as building motivation, curiosity, and memory.
What is 15 minutes per day?
There is almost a 90% probability that a child will remain a poor reader at the end of the fourth grade if the child is a poor reader at the end of this grade.
What is the first grade?
By this age, your child’s brain will be 80 percent of its adult size.
What is age 3?
The most important aspect of parent talk is its amount. Parents who just talk as they go about their daily activities expose their children to 1000-2000 words every one of these.
What are hours?
This has been shown to nearly triple a young child's interest in reading.
What is having a steady stream of changing books in the home.
Children growing up in homes with this many books books get three years more schooling than children from bookless homes, no matter what their parents’ education, occupation, and class is.
What is at least 20?
Children who aren’t reading at grade level by the end of this grade are four times as likely to drop out of high school.
What is the fourth grade?
These are common among children who are exposed to fewer colors, less touch, little interaction with adults, fewer sights and sounds, and less language.
What are smaller brains?
This is the best way to incorporate new language and content into your conversations with young children.
What is reading to them?
Children who are read to regularly by this age, display greater language comprehension, larger vocabularies, and higher cognitive skills than their peers.
What is age 2?
The number of kids in America that grow up without learning how to read.
What is 1 in 4.
Low achievement as early as fourth grade is a powerful predictor of high school and college graduation rates, as well as this.
What are lifetime earnings?
Given the course of brain development, it is not surprising that young children who are exposed to certain early language and literacy experiences usually prove to be these.= later in life.
What are good readers?
There is a tight link between the number of words a child hears and this.
What is literacy?