How School Counselors Can Help Your Student
by Valerie Kirk
byConnections Academy
5 min to readFrom the shiny pages of The Rainbow Fish to the snappy rhyming of The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss, the books we read in our childhood stay with us for a lifetime.
Looking at book ratings, length in words, and average read speed per minute for children in Grades 1-5, our new study reveals the best-rated children’s books and how long it’ll take your children to read them at home.
Here’s how long it takes children on average to read the top 50 best-rated children’s books:
Having books around your home will make them easy to access throughout the day — whether you’ll be reading with your children or they’re reading alone. Adding in a nightly bedtime story to your routine is a great way to bring in reading with the added bonus of spending valuable time with your children.
To help keep your children engaged, let them pick out different subjects for you to read together. You can also consider different types of reading materials such as fiction, non-fiction, magazines, and poetry.
Ask your children about the storylines, characters and twists and turns within the story. This will help keep them interested and more likely to read along with you.
Books and poems with rhymes and repeated words or phrases are great for getting your kids to join in and remember the words. This can be particularly helpful with young, new readers.
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Methodology & Research: Data collected April 2021. Full data on all 50 books available on request.