Why+Read+Aloud?


 * Even in higher income households, nearly 40% of families do not read aloud daily.
 * Fewer than half (48%) of young children in the United States are read to daily.
 * Nationally, 37% of children arrive to kindergarten without the skills for lifetime learning.
 * Some children entering kindergarten have been read aloud to as few as 25 hours, while others have had 1,000 hours of reading aloud.
 * By age four, low-income children have heard an average of 32 million words fewer than wealthy peers. Reading aloud is a key way to introduce new vocabulary.
 * One study has shown that 61% of low-income do not have children's books. In some areas, there may be only one book title for every 300 children.
 * If a child is not reading at grade level by the end of first grade then there is an 88% probability that the child will not be reading at grade level by the end of fourth grade.