How do we expect students to be ready for college-level work when more than half of them are reading 15 minutes or less a day beginning in first grade? That means that by 12th grade they have encountered 1.5 million words. Sounds like a lot of words until you consider that reading a half an hour or more a day translates into 13.7 million words by senior year.

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