Part A
What are the central ideas in the Newsela article "Health Benefits of Reading, Writing, Are Not Just for Patients"?

Reading and writing can help cure disease, and science is studying the benefits.

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

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.


Question 2 Part B

Which statements from the text best support the answer in Part A?
Select the two correct answers.

"If you have an experience and you sit down and write about it, you can pour that emotion out,' Harper says. 'Getting rid of these thoughts and emotions helps to find meaning in the death or the survival of a patient — and then allows you to move on with your life, he says.'"

"'We learn through the experiences of the characters we read about,' Coke says. Because we empathize, or feel what others are feeling, we expand our understanding of other people in other situations. We are also less bothered by our own misfortunes."

“Raymond Mar is a professor at York University in Toronto. He studies the effect reading fiction and nonfiction has on our ability to understand what others are feeling."

“A movement called narrative medicine has been growing. It comes from the idea that both writing and reading literature can help doctors and patients to communicate better."