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Does your kid read a lot? A new study suggests they’re likely happier, more physically active, have a more active imagination and even problem-solve better than kids who rarely or never read. The poll ...

When a person reads a sentence, two distinct networks in the brain are activated, working together to integrate the meanings of the individual words to obtain more complex, higher-order meaning, ...

Children who start to read for fun early in life get better test scores by the time they reach adolescence, according to a new study. Reading for pleasure by the age of nine is also linked to better ...

Researchers fear the reading decline reflects how many Americans have less and less leisure time. “Reading for pleasure, among other forms of arts participation, is a health behavior,” said one author ...

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