Presentations

Parents-Encouraging Reading

The Importance of Reading  Information from: [|The Importance of Reading] DANA GIOIA Chair, National Endowment for the Arts, THE COMMONWEALTH June 2006

Presented at Global Education Conference June 2010 & Raising Student Achievement Conference December 2010  [|Motivating Readers presentation.pptx]

 [|Motivating Readers presentation v2.ppt]  [|Resource List for book talk.docx]

 Penny Kittle-Heinemann []

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From the website: [] 1/3 of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives.  42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> 57 percent of new books are not read to completion. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> 70 percent of books published do not earn back their advance. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> 70 percent of the books published do not make a profit. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">a teen series option, but with 4th-6th grade readability- <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">[]