Summer Reading Challenge
The Chris Sain Jr. Summer Reading Challenge is designed to increase and improve reading and comprehension skills as well as recommit our youth to reading. Studies show that the link between academic failure and delinquency, violence and crime is largely connected to illiteracy and the inability to conjugate words. Why We Do It... One in four children in America grow up without learning to read 2/3rds of students who cannot read proficiently by the fourth grade will end up in jail or on welfare 6 out of 10 households do not purchase a single book in a year To determine how many prison beds will be needed in the future, some states actually base their projection on how well current elementary students are preparing on their reading tests 50 percent of Americans read so poorly they are unable to perform simple tasks such as reading a cereal box or prescription drug labels 44 million adults are now unable to read a simple story to their children. Wh...