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The Answer to the Question:
"Why Can't I Skip My
Twenty Minutes
of Reading Tonight?"

Let's figure it out -- mathematically!
Student A reads 20 minutes five nights of every week;
Student B reads only 4 minutes a night...or not at all!
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Step 1:
Multiply minutes a night x 5 times each week.
Student A reads 20 min. x 5 times a week = 100 mins./week
Student B reads 4 minutes x 5 times a week = 20 minutes
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Step 2:
Multiply minutes a week x 4 weeks each month.
Student A reads 400 minutes a month.
Student B reads 80 minutes a month.
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Step 3:
Multiply minutes a month x 9 months/school year
Student A reads 3600 min. in a school year.
Student B reads 720 min. in a school year.
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Student A practices reading the equivalent of
ten whole school days a year.
Student B gets the equivalent of
only two school days of reading practice.
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By the end of 6th grade. . .
if both Student A and Student B maintain these same reading habits:
Student A will have read the equivalent of
60 whole school days
Student B will have read the equivalent of
only 12 school days.
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One would expect the gap of information retained will have widened considerably and so, undoubtedly, will the student's
school performance.
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How do you think Student B will feel about him/herself as a student?
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Some questions to ponder:
Which student would you expect to read better?
Which student would you expect to know more?
Which student would you expect to write better?
Which student would you expect to have a better vocabulary?
Which student would you expect to be more successful in school
....and in life?
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