improving communication skills
The Importance of Reading
Bridging that gap is important. Luckily, the conversations needed to bridge that gap — about television and the way it functions for Americans — are already happening. Notably, they are happening everywhere outside of the classroom. Websites like the A.V. Club recap TV shows daily, and conversations about current TV fill popular websites like Reddit and Tumblr.
As this discussion of TV surges, enthusiasm for traditional, written literature wanes. The National Endowment for the Arts found that in 1982, 56.9% of adults reported having read a work of literature in the past year. In 2015, only 43.1% of adults had. And further research by the National Endowment for the Arts found that literary reading has dropped across age, race, and educational levels among adults. As literary reading rates drop, one might argue that traditional literary reading needs to be preserved in the classroom, not to be replaced by conversations about television that are happening everywhere else in the U.S. It may be important to unite what rural and urban Americans watch; it may be more important for schools to keep young Americans reading.
Novels teach writing skills. Although a TV show comes from a script, it is watched, not read. A TV show doesn’t offer students the chance to diagram sentences or to dig deeply into how paragraphs function. A 2013 study done at Tohoku University in Japan found that the more TV children watched, the lower their verbal test scores became. In the same year, a study at Emory University found that college students had increased connectivity in the parts of the brain associated with language while reading a novel.The author believes that which of the following is a benefit of reading literature?
limited exposure to controversial content
persevering traditions of the past
improving communication skills
losing yourself in a good story
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