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This document discusses the importance of reading and literacy. It notes that 20 minutes of reading per day can amount to over 1 million words read per year. It also discusses how grit, or passion and perseverance for long-term goals, is a significant predictor of success. Additionally, it highlights statistics showing declining reading proficiency rates and the consequences thereof, such as fewer students being college ready and high incarceration rates among those with low literacy.

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Why Read Infographic

This document discusses the importance of reading and literacy. It notes that 20 minutes of reading per day can amount to over 1 million words read per year. It also discusses how grit, or passion and perseverance for long-term goals, is a significant predictor of success. Additionally, it highlights statistics showing declining reading proficiency rates and the consequences thereof, such as fewer students being college ready and high incarceration rates among those with low literacy.

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20 minutes of reading per day per year...

...over a million words per year. 3

165
154 149
136

Never or hardly ever


Once or twice a month
Once or twice a week
Almost every day

One characteristic emerges as a significant predictor of


success...
Grit.
Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals.
Grit is having stamina.
Grit is sticking with your future, day in, day out, not just
for the week, not just for the month, but for years, and
working really hard to make that future a reality.
(Angela Lee Duckworth)

The 25 fastest growing


professions have far greater than
average literacy demands. 7
Physical Therapist
Software Programmer
Health Aide
Dental Hygienist
Physician Assistant
Engineer
Network Analyst
Personal Care Aide
Veterinary Tech

Medical Secretary

Reading
25%
Other Tasks
75%

Only 52% of students in 2012 were ready for


college-level reading as predicted by the ACT. 8

Reading is an essential component of


college and workplace readiness. 8

And 11% of entering college students


must take remedial reading courses. 8

70% of those taking the remedial


classes fail to earn a college degree
within eight years. 8 Over 60% of 100
prison inmates
are functionally 75
illiterate. 4 85% of juvenile
50 offenders are
unable to read
25
well enough to
0 participate in
their case. 4
Prisoners

1 Gallagher, K. (2004). Deeper Reading: Comprehending Challenging Texts, 4-12. Portland, Me.: Stenhouse Publishers.

2 Gallagher, K. (2009). Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do about It. Portland, Me.: Stenhouse Publishers.

3 Nagy, W., and Anderson, R. C. (1984). How many words are there in printed school English? Reading Research Quarterly, 19, 304-330.

4 Kirsch, I., Jungeblat, A., Jenkins, L., & Kolstad, A. (2002). Adult Literacy in America: A First Look at the Findings of the National Adult Literacy Survey. US Department of Education: Office of
Educational Research and Improvement. Retrieved from http://nces.ed.gov/pubs93/93275.pdf

5 National Endowment for the Arts. (2007). To Read or Not To Read A Question of National Consequence (Research Report #47). Retrieved from http://www.nea.gov/
033184B3-29DF-4B59-97BD-1E4C66F42F7A/FinalDownload/DownloadId-96AF088D835BBA740BF0B7E115329547/033184B3-29DF-4B59-97BD-1E4C66F42F7A/research/ToRead.pdf

6 The Literacy Company. (2013). Reading, Literacy & Education Statistics. Retrieved from http://www.readfaster.com/education_stats.asp

7 Biancarosa, G. and Snow, C. (2004). Reading Next: A Vision for Action and Research in Middle and High School Literacy. A Report to Carnegie Corporation of New York. Retrieved from http://
www.all4ed.org/files/ReadingNext.pdf

8 ACT, Inc. (2006). Reading Between the Lines: What the ACT Reveals about College Readiness in Reading. Iowa City, IA: ACT, Inc. Retrieved from http://www.act.org/research/policymakers/
pdf/reading_summary.pdf

9 Cunningham, A. E. and Stanovich, K. E. (1998). What Reading Does for the Mind. American Educator. Retrieved from http://www.aft.org/pdfs/americaneducator/springsummer1998/
cunningham.pdf

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