The Incredible Impact of 20 Minutes: How Daily Reading Transforms Children’s Lives

Did you know that reading for just 20 minutes a day offers numerous benefits?

• Reading enhances critical thinking skills.
• Reading topics of interest fosters a love of reading and helps children develop into lifelong learners.
• Reading introduces children to diverse ideas and cultures.
• Reading nurtures empathy, allowing children to “walk in someone else’s shoes.”
• Reading with your child or having them read independently before bed can help them relax and wind down from their day.
• Students who read 20 minutes daily achieve significantly higher scores on standardized reading tests.
• Kids who read 20 minutes a day, five days a week, encounter 1.8 million words in a school year. In contrast, those who read only 5 minutes a day are exposed to just 282,000 words annually.

In addition to reading on Beable at home, you can provide your child with additional reading materials matched to their interests and to their Lexile reading level by using MetaMetrics’s Find a Book tool.