Did you know? Moll and Bus’s 2011 meta-analysis of 99 studies that focused on the leisure-time reading of preschoolers, kindergarteners, students in Grades 1–12 , and college students found an upward spiral of casualty between print exposure and oral language skills, reading comprehension, and technical reading and spelling.
For each year of reading, students’ skills in these domains improved by:
34%
20%
19%
13%
12%
Preschool
Primary Grades Middle School
High School
College
Many of the texts I read as a child have been like roadmap markers, showing me a range of life options … helping me define myself not only as a reader but also as a human being. —Dr. Alfred Tatum, dean of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Illinois at Chicago
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THE JOY AND POWER OF READING
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