Reading in numbers

Yes, of course, let’s read, but where does it lead us? If you read just one story to your child every night, he will be exposed to 1,825 stories by the age of 5. If we raise the stakes and think in terms of longer books, and read just two books every month from the age of 14, we will have read 144 books by the age of 20 and 624 by the age of 40; this number could easily be even higher, because the more we read, the faster readers we become. And speaking of speed: reading just 20 minutes a day is enough to read 1.8 million words a year. And what is all this for? Well, children who read 1 million words a year have a reading performance in the top 2%.

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