Reading crucial to child’s development | Lincoln Times-News

Reading crucial to child’s development | Lincoln Times-News: Fewer than half of young children in the United States are read to daily. In most states, minority and low-income children are less likely to be read to every day. As a result, many children from low-income families enter kindergarten with a listening vocabulary of 3,000 words while many children of middle/upper income families enter with a listening vocabulary of 20,000 words.