What Happens When We Read? Part 6
Therapeutic Benefits of Reading and Writing Creative writing has reading at its core. The benefits of reading and writing (including journals and letters) have been referenced in...
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Therapeutic Benefits of Reading and Writing Creative writing has reading at its core. The benefits of reading and writing (including journals and letters) have been referenced in...
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How Healthy is Reading? 19th century newly literate women were considered vulnerable and there was a fear that they could be manipulated by fiction! Similarly, newly literate men...
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Reading through History Reading has long been seen as a source of ‘solace, consolation and healing throughout history.’ Helen Mary Gaskell set up a War Library in 1914 (after...
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Identification and Transportation This means the extent to which the reader identifies with characters and situations and how much they become mentally and emotionally immersed in...
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Reading Through Time: Making Sense of Our World Anthropological evidence suggests stories were used by ancestral hominids. Rubin (1995) says stories are such a strong part of...
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Reading Through Time… Reading is a form of entertainment with a long history. People often turn to reading as a source of comfort e.g. when in hospital, a distraction from...
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This is the second article detailing the experience of our A Level Literature students as they venture into the realms of online learning. This week we hear from students who have...
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The English Faculty is always looking for ways to broaden the range of experiences and opportunities available to students to enhance their learning. One strategy has been to...
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How many people speak English? There are over 840 million people who speak English as a first or second language. This makes it the second most spoken language after Mandarin. It...
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January 30th to 6th February, is National Storytelling Week. If you want to find out more about the group, the work they do and some fact sheets that help aspiring writers, this...
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Therapeutic Benefits of Reading and Writing
And the source, for anyone who might want to delve further, is the Open University course of the same name.
Thank you and well done to everyone who participated in our World Book Day. Following on from last week’s events I had the pleasure of awarding students with their prizes....