READING WRITERS READING: Canadian Authors' Reflections (cuRRents)

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In short, if you want to succeed, you need to focus. And if you want to focus more , you can practice by reading books. 4. Improve Your Memory

I’m co-writing a play at the moment, called Conference of the Trees, with Connie Treves and Majid Adin, based on the work of poets involved with the Change the Word Collective, Sarah Orola, Lester Gomez Medina, Diyo Mulopo Bopengo, Ian Andrew, Yordanos Gebrehiwot. I’ve spent over a year reading and rereading their poetry, much of which appears in An Orchestra of Unexpected Sounds, and it is still as crisp and alive as the first time I encountered it. HM PrisonReading opens for the first time to the public as artists, writers, and performers respond toits most notorious inmate: Oscar Wilde.Wilde’s time in jail was devastating, the work produced in result enduring.Incarcerated in solitary confinement he wrote De Profundis, an extended letter to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas; on release he produced his last work,The Ballad of Reading Gaol.A 12-year study on health and retirement found that those who read books survived around two years longer than those who didn't read books or read magazines and other forms of media. Additionally, those who read for 30 minutes a day (3.5 hours per week) were 23% more likely to outlive those who didn't read often.

For the first year of his sentence, Oscar Wilde was forbidden to write anything beyond the occasional letter. In 1896 a more sympathetic governor took charge and allowed Wilde sufficient paper to write De Profundis. Taking their cue from Wilde’s literary reflection on his separation, nine contemporary writers have composed a letter to a loved one from whom they have been separated by state enforcement.In some cases, these are written from direct personal experience of imprisonment. Read/write learners use their style of learning to efficiently learn and process new information. This improves their decision-making skills as they can incorporate new data and ideas into their current database of knowledge. How to plan lessons that accommodate reading and writing learners Take a look at this great article on examples of bad dialogue. Most of the examples are hard to read, awkwardly constructed, and a bit cringey. Can you explain why some of these examples are bad writing? If you can, you’re reading like a writer. Klein, P. (1999). Reopening inquiry into cognitive processes in writing-to-learn. Educational Psychology Review, 11, 203–270. Newport also argues that this skill is becoming increasingly rare due to constant multitasking, notifications, and social media apps. A study by Microsoft would agree, finding that people generally lose attention after just eight seconds.

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You can include graphic elements such as mind maps, flow charts and concept maps to help learners understand and remember complex ideas.

Guided reading training is a method of teaching reading where children share and discuss the reading of a text under guidance from a teacher. This helps to develop reading abilities in children. Sjöwall and Wahlöö were communists and depicted Sweden as a country in terminal decline, one in which the progressive ideal of a welfare state had been allowed to wither and die, creating an unequal and crime-ridden society. Losing yourself in a book is the ultimate relaxation," said Dr. David Lewis, the cognitive neuropsychologist who conducted the study.While some people prefer to learn by taking in information via videos or actions, some prefer reading and writing to help information sink in. These learners are said to have a reading and writing learning style, as outlined in the VARK framework. VARK stands for Visual, Auditory, Read/Write and Kinaesthetic, which refers to the different learning styles we have and how we prefer to acquire knowledge. This is because when you read, you’re exposed to new words and phrases that you might not normally encounter in your everyday life. And the more words you know, the easier it is to express yourself clearly in writing. 2. Helps you to articulate your thoughts better Ehri, L., Nunes, S., Stahl, S., & Willows, D. (2001a). Systematic phonics instruction helps students learn to read: Evidence from the National Reading Panel’s meta-analysis. Review of Educational Research, 71, 393–447. So, the next time you're feeling stressed, remember the benefits of reading for pleasure and let the tension melt away. 9. Improve Your Mental Health Make time for reading groups and assign books to students so that they can share their insights with the class. This is especially helpful for auditory learners as well.

Fiction-wise, I’ve been enjoying audiobooks recently: I loved Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver and am now listening to Guy Gunaratne’s In Our Mad and Furious City (having previously read it in physical form), which is also very well produced. There’s no doubt that the style and genre of reading material definitely affect writing. For instance, if you read a lot of books that are written in first person perspective, you’re likely to start incorporating that into your own writing. Likewise, if you read a lot of fiction, your writing might take on a more creative and imaginative tone.American writer Eli Payne Mandel’s first collection, The Grid, has opened on to a wonderland of poetry and prose. It is headed by a lyric essay about Alice Kober, the long unrecognised classicist who worked on the decipherment of Linear B. This is poetry as archaeology, a beautiful rebuilding, through fragments, of still-living pasts. The scans showed that brain connectivity increased while reading and for days afterward, demonstrating the enormous benefits of reading books every day. The gaol closed in the winter of 1915 as prison populations diminished dueto wartime employment opportunities. Between 1916 and 1919 it was used as an internment centre to hold foreign nationals suspected of spying or having anti-British sympathies, alongside Irish prisoners involved in the Easter Rising.Inmates were interned without trial under the terms of 1914 Defence of the Realm Act and housed in the EWing which, had previously housed female prisoners.