Nerd Alert: Reading Is Good For Your Health

Read excerpt # 3 The Anasazi: Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde and excerpt # 4 The Mississippians: Cahokia and Moundville (pp.29-33) by following the link Pre-Columbian America (Learner.org). Type responses to the following questions on Google Doc and save.

Ruth Wilson's article was more personal and read less like a clinical treatise and more like a mommy blog, which I appreciated. Too often, educators get wrapped up in the science behind the theories and forget that learning is a very individual process. Her highly professional and yet, approachable article was informative, highlighting the natural evolution of reading. From the environment, to social situations, reading isn't just decoding print on a page. The skills we use to

Informal Reading Inventory (IRI) are diagnostic assessment administered individually to evaluate different aspects of students’ reading. After reading the text, students orally are answering the questions following the text. Teachers take into the consideration additional factors,, such as fluency, students’ prior knowledge, and determine students’ reading levels. This information may to choose appropriate reading material for students, to form reading groups, and to plan future reading instruction taking into the considerations students strengths and needs. According to Chall (1983), the greatest value of IRI is to help educators to diagnose the gaps in the abilities of readers who struggle the most. For teachers, who looking for the better way to address students instructional needs of children, who have reading difficulties, IRI is a very valuable diagnostic tool.

If you couldn’t read or write, how would you tackle your daily life? Being literate is a crucial part of everyone’s life; reading and writing are essential for a person’s success. Every single day, it’s used, whether it’s for an Advanced Placement Language class or reading a billboard as you’re driving past. As a child, I grew up reading on a daily basis and I believe that I am as successful as I am on behalf of it. Countless memories have been created, thanks to the multiple books that have been read and the umpteen amount of papers that I’ve written. Throughout the numerous years of my education, my teachers and parents left a long lasting impact on my reading and writing skills.

She begins by focusing on the idea that using neuroenhancers is similar to antidepressants. While interviewing Seltzer he brings to her attention that “using neuroenhancers is like customizing yourself-customizing your brain. For some people, he went on, it was important to enhance their mood, so they took antidepressants, but for people like him it was more important to increase mental horsepower” (para. 15). Comparisons such as these smoothly lead Talbot into another important comparison-that in the 15 to 1600’s writers would use tobacco or saffron for neuroenhancing. In the 1800’s they talked about using copious amounts of coffee to stay awake and produce writings. Students today “are just the latest members of a seasoned cohort, even if they have more complex pharmaceuticals at their disposal” (para. 16). This is followed by her comparison of neuroenhancing to body enhancing with plastic surgery. Everyone who participates in body enhancing through plastic surgery knows the risks and complications that may come with it but choose to partake. Neuroenhancing is no different, with all the risks of using stimulants like Adderall and Ritalin spelled out it is the user’s choice to take part. By making all these comparisons it may make the reader believe that it is potential that neuroenhancing drugs may not be all the different then some of the other legal substances we use.

Alexie says reading saves lives. I agree and disagree because I believe if someone enjoys reading it could be a great hobby and skill to acquire, but if someone does not enjoy reading they could always find another hobby like sports or video games. Alexie in a way did save his life through reading, because without reading he would have been a typical indian boy and would have fallen through the cracks. However, just because reading was what got him through though times and hard situations does not mean everyone else will have the same experiences. For example, Personally I was never a huge fan of reading, but I did enjoy horseback riding. In a way horseback riding saved me from hanging around the wrong group of children because it kept me busy

Reading can open one’s mind to the imagination of anything to be dreamt of. Poems, short stories, novels, plays, and dramas are all different types of literature that exist today. All of the different types of literature have their own ways and formats that they are written in. Literature has many ways of speaking to us as we read them, it can strike up emotions or memories that we have or it can make us rethink a situation that we are going through. I believe that literature can help a person open up through his or her stories.

Dana Gioia's purpose of this essay is to explain to society that reading less will mentally impact them. She is trying to get the message across to everyone, so that they understand the image that there setting on themselves, and impact that is has on them outside of literature. It is also impacting them in the business world. With there decline in reading, it holds there brain from opening up and really creating artistic ideas.

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you’ll go.” I have always loved Dr. Seuss’ books, especially his book, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut. To me, this book gives me a good reason why I love to read -- which is to always learn at least two new things about the world or myself. When my mother first bought me the book, The Land Of Stories: The Wishing Spell, in 2014, I thought it would be a terrible book and I decided not to read it. A couple of months later, I finally picked up the book to start reading. I loved the story and wanted to read the next book in the series. I learned from The Land Of Stories: The Wishing Spell that anything is possible, if you put

While I believe reading is an extraordinary task that allows passage into worlds outside one’s mindset, can there not be danger in it as well? Books hold so much power and knowledge within them that they have the ability to render our minds incapable of processing thoughts. There is also the risk of someone who mentally is not all there getting violent ideas, paranoia, and submerging themselves too far into the story line. Because of all of the potential threats caused by reading, it being good for your health is debatable.

Anne Murphy Paul first quotes the opposing argument, a statement from a professor named Gregory Currie that says there is no evidence that reading classic literature helps to benefit people. She then goes on to explain how there actually is sufficient evidence that can help to effectively support her central claim. This comparison not only serves as an effective and attention-grabbing introduction, but also helps to present the specific facts of the passage. She uses specific examples from credible studies- citing the titles and qualifications

Simply scanning through an article here and there, as many of us do, doesn’t help us retain information that we once did. On the other hand, reading a book takes patients,

Our results are inconsistent with prior research on fiction. Our results suggest that reading fiction has no correlation with higher levels of empathy and transportation, which is inconsistent

In my opinion, the reason for this assignment is for the teacher to see where we are in our reading, and writing. Reading to me must happen when I am interested in something for example, a movie because I enjoy reading about the plots but everyone is different. Another example is a graphic novel, because you can understand the concept or plot a lot easier than you would do in a regular novel. In regular books, you have so many things going on and you aren’t able to understand what is happening then you end up getting the wrong idea. Writing is just about the same for example, I can’t write about something that I know nothing about or interested in. Therefore, I am writing this paper to show you my weaknesses and not my strengths because I

Reading is one of my favorite pastimes. I am a tuned-in Reader, and I appreciate well written biographies. Enjoyable reading takes my mind off school work and relaxes me. I enjoy academic reading as well, but sometimes it is intense and requires much concentration. Moreover, I am a tuned in reader when it comes to academic subject’s such as; psychology, nutrition, health and history.