I'm working on creating a brochure for Back to School Night next week. In researching statistics about reading 1,000,000 words a year, I discovered an excellent PDF from Scholastic, which you can see in its entirety here: Scholastic Facts About Reading
I find this sort of information RIVETING, of course, so I think you will too :)
In fact, I liked it so much, I made a Wordle out of it:
