Importance of Home Reading

How Much Should Our Children Read at Home?

One hour every day

from the time they are four months old until they take the SAT  

if they want to go to any of these colleges:

Spellman College-Atlanta, GA

Morehouse College-Atlanta, GA

Tuskegee University-Tuskegee, AL

Harvard University-Cambridge, MA

Fisk University-Nashville, TN

Stanford University-San Fancisco, CA

Clark-Atlanta University-Atlanta, GA

University of Pennsylvania-Philadelphia, PA

Howard University-Washington, DC

The typical middle class child enters first grade with 1,000-1,700 hours of one-on-one picture book reading whereas a child from a low-income family averages just 25 hours.

-M.J. Adams, Learning to Read

The quantity of trade book reading is the best single predictor of test score performance and success in schools, and is a better predictor than either socioeconomic factors or parental education.

-Terrance Paul, Patterns of Reading Practice