Facts About Readig
Education:
- The average student learns about 3,000 words per year in the early school years (8 words per day).
- Five to six year olds have a vocabulary of 2,500-5,000 words.
- 14% of all individuals have a learning disability.
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- The educational careers of 25 to 40 percent of American children are imperiled because they don't read well enough, quickly enough, or easily enough. - Dyslexia affects one out of every five children - ten million in America alone. - The average reader spends about 1/6th of the time they spend reading actually rereading words. - 46% of American adults cannot understand the label on their prescription medicine. |
