FILM 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Formula Fiction, List Of University Presses, Big Business
9 Dec 2015
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Average adult reads 10 books a year. Improved health and well-being: fighting stress, cognitive benefits, enhanced academic performance, improved memory, escaping mundane everyday life routines. Leisure reading is gendered, women more likely to read (3x: gendered from childhood, gender division starts early, girls more likely than boy to read, boys. Stores more likely to target boys for graphic novels. Reading enjoyment is a major factor in literacy test scores: correlations, parent who read correlated in increase in kids test, more children have mobile phones than books scores. Positive impacts of reading at home: improved reading achievement, language comprehension, expressive language skills, classroom attentiveness. Behaviour improves: age 15 key literacy moment. 15 and chance of going to college or university. Reading well = more likely to be enrolled (cid:1) ereading. New platforms to read: seniors read faster on tablet. Reading is beneficial in successful aging, more life satisfaction, less depression.
