Question

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Part A

What are the central ideas in the article "The Benefits of Reading and Writing Extend Beyond the Classroom"?
Responses

Reading and writing can improve health and everyone should read every day.
Reading and writing can improve health and everyone should read every day.

Reading and writing are healthy, and positivity is important for health.
Reading and writing are healthy, and positivity is important for health.

Reading might be beneficial for health, and more research is needed to prove it.
Reading might be beneficial for health, and more research is needed to prove it.

Reading and writing can help cure disease, and science is studying the benefits.
Reading and writing can help cure disease, and science is studying the benefits.
Question 2
Part B

Which statements from the text best support the answer in Part A?

Select the two correct answers.
Responses

"…researchers found that reading can reduce stress levels by as much as 68 percent. Additionally, reading slows the heart rate and reduces muscle tension."
"…researchers found that reading can reduce stress levels by as much as 68 percent. Additionally, reading slows the heart rate and reduces muscle tension."

"Narrative medicine has shown that reading enhances providers’ listening and observation skills. When medical providers are strong readers, they tend to see their patients as real people."
"Narrative medicine has shown that reading enhances providers’ listening and observation skills. When medical providers are strong readers, they tend to see their patients as real people."

"…when patients write about their feelings, it can act as an emotional release valve. It lightens their psychological load. Now researchers are finding that writing can even help ease the symptoms of physical stress, like disease."
"…when patients write about their feelings, it can act as an emotional release valve. It lightens their psychological load. Now researchers are finding that writing can even help ease the symptoms of physical stress, like disease."

"Raymond Mar, a professor at York University in Toronto, studies lifelong readers of fiction and nonfiction. His research has shown that such readers are better able to pick up on and explain the feelings and thoughts of others than nonreaders."

Answer 1

Part A. The central idea is “reading and writing can help cure disease and science is studying the benefits”

Part B. The statement that best supports the central idea/Part A is

"…when patients write about their feelings, it can act as an emotional release valve. It lightens their psychological load. Now researchers are finding that writing can even help ease the symptoms of physical stress, like disease."