One of my anecdotal observations is that people (especially children) who read more often have significantly better written communication skills. I had a number

One of my anecdotal observations is that people (especially children) who read more often have significantly better written communication skills. I had a number of peers that I went all the way from kindergarten through undergraduate with, and by the end, the people who had done a lot of reading as kids could write significantly more coherent papers, essays, and even emails. Now, it's only a correlation; the kids who read a lot as children may have done so simply because they had some kind of stronger innate language skills. I'm not a psychology researcher or a neuroscientist, but it's definitely an interesting anecdote to me :)