Busy, Busy, Busy

The school year is back in full swing, and we know that kids schedules can make things very hectic--soccer practice, band practice, karate lessons, guitar lessons, student council--aaaahhhhhh! The library would like to remind you to not let reading fall through the cracks. I know that I am probably preaching to the choir, but honestly I don't think it can be said enough. Here are a few interesting, and some sobering statistics:

• Out-of-school reading habits of students has shown that even 15 minutes a day of independent reading can expose students to more than a million words of text in a year.
• Forty-four percent of American 4th grade students cannot read fluently, even when they read grade-level stories aloud under supportive testing conditions.
• Children who have not developed some basic literacy skills by the time they enter school are 3 - 4 times more likely to drop out in later years.
  

Hope to see you at the library!