"Of course, I didn't know she couldn't read, so there I was submitting these reports," he said, "She would put check marks on them like she had been reading them.

Becoming educated should not require giving up joy but rather lead to finding joy in new kinds of things: reading novels instead of playing with small figures, conducting experiments instead of sinking cups in the bathtub, and debating serious issues rath

Careme would often spend his free afternoons at the nearby National library reading book on art and architecture.

I have a habit of reading magazine.

If you look at data about reading and math, you'll notice something interesting.

In a review of 14 studies that looked at physical activity and academic performance, investigators found that the more children moved, the better their grades were in school, particularly in the basic subjects of math, English and reading.

It's a pretty easy job, but one with lots of downtime, which means you will have plenty of time to catch up on reading, do homework or study for an exam.

Joining a debate or reading club or group is also a good idea.

Reading literary fiction, he says, makes us more curious.

Soon however, Katherine found herself comparing herself with the people she was reading about on Facebook.

to encourage reading around the world

After reading a book on how to address for success, he had purchased an expensive dark navy suit and golden tie.

Readers will feel they know John Muir after reading his story and may catch his passion for preserving the riches of our land.

Although going to college is supposed to be a full-time job, students spent, on average, only 12 to 14 hours a week studying and many were skating through their semesters without doing a significant amount of reading and writing.

Another example is reading aloud, which studies have shown gives children bigger vocabularies and better reading comprehension in school.

As fifth-graders, children with early attention problems obtained average reading scores at least 3% lower than their contemporaries' and grades at least 8% lower than those of their peers.

As one person ironically put it in the comments section of Schwartz's online article, "As I was reading this very excellent article, I stopped at least half a dozen times to check my email.

But surely everyone reading this has had times when you lie in bed for hours, unable to fall asleep because your brain is thinking about work.

But that doesn't mean that all students will do amazingly, if they just spend all their time reading from a textbook.

By fifth grade, children with early attention difficulties had lower grades and reading achievement scores than their peers.

Even worse, after refreshing our email or reading the same studies over and over, we are too exhausted when we land to soldier on with (繼續處理) the emails that have inevitably still piled up.

However, this is a contentious theory and such claims have been treated skeptically by some scholars based on their reading of the relevant data.

In the past decade, even as income inequality has grown, some of the socioeconomic differences in parenting, like reading to children and going to libraries, have narrowed.

Less sport, and fewer meetings with peers correlated with lower well-being, as did less time reading print media newspapers and, surprisingly, less time doing homework.

Lower reading achievement scores and grades in fifth grade contributed to reduced grades in middle school and thereby contributed to a 40% lower high school graduation rate.

Or if reading or listening does a trick, maybe you feel like you're a verbal learner.

Public policies aimed at young children have helped, including public preschool programs and reading initiatives.

Reading magazines like The Stockman Grass Farmer and Graze, he got hooked on the idea of grass-fed agriculture.

Reading the earnings announcements of large retail stores like Macy's, Nordstrom, and Target is about as uplifting as a tour of an intensive care unit.

similar studies tested whether students learned basic physics and chemistry concepts better by reading plain text or viewing pictures to and everyone do better with the help of pictures.

The more people are on their phones, the fewer people are talking until finally you're the only one left not reading email or checking Twitter.

There are usually two parents, who spend a lot of time reading to children and worrying about their anxiety levels and hectic schedules.

They have to give so much thought and attention to the low-level mechanics of handling the ball, or fingering the keys or reading the music, that they are unable to give any thought to the thing that matters—the game, or the music, respectively.

Twenge and her colleagues also found that across the key years of 2013-16, well-being was indeed lowest in years where adolescents spent more time online, on social media, and reading news online, and when more youth in the United States had smartphones.