Why Read 30 minutes a Day?

If daily reading begins in infancy, by the time the child is
five years old, he or she has been fed roughly 900 hours of brain food!

Reduce that experience to just 30 minutes a week and the
child's hungry mind loses 770 hours of nursery rhymes, fairy tales, and stories.

A kindergarten student who has not been read aloud to could
enter school with less than 60 hours of literacy nutrition. No teacher,
no matter how talented, can make up for those lost hours of mental
nourishment.

Therefore...
30 minutes daily: 900 hours
30 minutes weekly: 130 hours
Less than 30 minutes weekly: 60 hours

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