Kids may be able to swim their way to a deeper vocabulary.
That’s the takeaway from a study in which researchers taught 48 kids ages 6 to 12 a few new words before they swam, did CrossFit-type exercises or coloring.
The swimmers did 13% better in follow up tests of the new words — an outcome that did not surprise study author Madison Pruitt, a former college swimmer who conducted the research as a graduate student at the University of Delaware.
“Motor movement helps in encoding new words,” Pruitt said in a university news release.
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{Matzav.com}
