Reading for Pleasure (RfP)

What does science tells us about why we should get lost in a great story?

Reading for pleasure can be a great way to relax, increase your imagination, boost your mood exercise your brain! Reading has been shown to increase our vocabulary by 50%, lower our stress levels by 68% and can even lengthen our lives by 2 years! According to the International Reading Association “adolescents entering the adult world in the 21st century will read and write more than at any other time in human history. They will need advanced levels of literacy to perform their jobs, run their households, act as citizens, and conduct their personal lives. They will need literacy to cope with the flood of information they will find everywhere they turn. They will need literacy to feed their imaginations so they can create the world of the future. In a complex and sometimes even dangerous world, their ability to read can be crucial”.