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Recounts the arts-based literacy initiative in urban after-school environments. This initiative used comic books, pictures, and illustrations as tools and mediums to increase literacy

Defines, describes, and explains visual literacy. This means the ability to receive, process, interact with, and respond to visual messages.

Paper on how/if pictures increase literacy and how images affect literacy

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The authors explore the significance of different opportunities provided by college recreational sports (CRS) and its affect on student-athletes. They came to the conclusion from their study that academic performance excels when academic standards are brought to the administration first. Their results can help inform academic and athletic administrators, students, and the general public of the importance of continued support for recreational sports in college, and not just intercollegiate sports.

In an age of carefully scheduled activities and educational pressure, child development specialists advocate more playtime for children.

Assessing how boys and girls influence each other. It might be worth looking up the article the author references.

Lynn Waterhouse's article summarizes evidence for three cognitive theories, one including the "Mozart Effect" theory. Since I was doing this project about the Mozart Effect, I figured I'll pay more attention on the passage concentrating more on MI. In the review, it discusses the history of the method as well as evidence showing how effective this is. It also talks about the Mozart Effect as an arousal tool, that Mozart music creates excitement. Like many of the sources that I'm using, this source also presents that some researchers disconfriming the evidence of this method.