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Diving into a great novel can be an immersive experience that makes your mind come alive. Want to give your brain a workout? Open a foreign language novel.
Do your learners know what happens when the read, or when stories are read to them. This post, from the Open Education Database, provides a visual (that you may want to print out and share with learners and their families) as well as 10 ways that reading helps your brain workout. The list is below.
* We make photos in our mind, even without being prompted.
* Spoken word can put your brain to work.
* Reading about experiences is almost the same as living it.
* Different styles of reading create different patterns in the brain.
* New languages can grow your brain.
* Your brain adapts to reading e-books in seven days.
* E-books lack in spatial navigability.
* Story structure encourages our brain to think in sequence, expanding our attention spans.
* Reading changes your brain structure (in a good way)).
* Deep reading makes us more empathetic.
To learn more about each of these points click through to the post.