Why Should Students Read for 20 Minutes a Day?
Importance of Reading at Home
Reading at home is very crucial. Especially for vocabulary. As a classroom teacher, my only homework assignment is for my students to read 30 minutes each day.
There is a study by Nagy & Herman (1987) that shows the significance of reading 20 minutes a day. Student X reads 20 minutes a day; student Y, 5 minutes a day. Student X is exposed to 1.8 million words throughout a school year, while student Y is only exposed to 282,000 new words. This is a huge