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Study Shows How Reading Skill Shapes More Than Just Reading

Reading Is Everything

Buffalo.edu: 3.15.2021 by Bert Gambini

“These findings floored me. They elevate the value and importance of literacy by showing how reading proficiency reaches across domains, guiding how we approach other tasks and solve other problems.”

A UB researcher’s recent work on dyslexia has unexpectedly produced a startling discovery that clearly demonstrates how the cooperative areas of the brain responsible for reading skill are also at work during apparently unrelated activities, such as multiplication.

Though the division between literacy and math is commonly reflected in the division between the arts and sciences, the findings suggest that reading, writing and arithmetic, the foundational skills informally identified as the three R’s, might actually overlap in ways not previously imagined, let alone experimentally validated.

“These findings floored me,” says Christopher McNorgan, the paper’s author and an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology. “They elevate the value and importance of literacy by showing how reading proficiency reaches across domains, guiding how we approach other tasks and solve other problems.

“Reading is everything, and saying so is more than an inspirational slogan. It’s now a definitive research conclusion.”   READ MORE ➤➤

 

Automatic Readability Checker

Based on 7 readability formulas:

Grade Level: 14

Reading Level: very difficult to read.

Reader's Age: 21-22 yrs. old

(college level)