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Research Compendium

Here, for those interested, is the full Family and Community Engagement (FACE) 2013 Compendium of Research (Compendium PDF), including the “Access to Books” section shared in “Picture Books and Their Consequences.”

Picture Books and Their Consequences

“The average child growing up in a middle-class family has been exposed to 1,000 to 1,700 hours of one-on-one picture book reading. The average child growing up in a less economically stable family, in contrast, has only been exposed to 25 hours of one-on-one reading.” (J. McQuillan, The literacy crisis: False claims, real solutions. Portsmouth,Continue reading “Picture Books and Their Consequences”