Literacy

I am excited to share with you 10 Fun Literacy Facts that you may not have known:

Did you know…

1. Reading for 6 minutes a day reduces stress by 68%
2. Read 20 minutes a day, and you’ll read 1,800,000 words per year.
3. Children learn 4,000 to 12,000 words per year through reading.
4. Children in classrooms without classroom libraries read 50 percent less than children in classrooms with libraries (Lucky Kismet Park have this covered!)
5. Learning to read is NOT a natural process - it must be taught.
6. The English word alphabet comes (via Latin) from the names of the first two letters of the Greek alphabet: alpha and beta. These Greek words, however, are derivations of the Phoenician aleph and bet (see the similarity to the Hebrew alphabet?), which go back further than 1050 BC.
7. The most commonly used letter from the English alphabet is E and the least commonly used letter in English is Z
8. The 26 letters of the English alphabet make up more than 40 distinct sounds. Since there are a lot more sounds than letters, many letters have different pronunciations, e.g. the C in cool sounds different than the C in city
9. The most common word in English is THE
10. A sentence which contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet is called a pangram. A famous pangram is: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” but there are even shorter ones such as: “Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.”

BONUS FACT!