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This document provides an overview of Module 1 of an education course on developmental reading. It includes quotes about the benefits of reading from various authors. It discusses how reading gives friends to guide growth, exercises the mind, and provides knowledge and experience. It also includes quotes about the value of books in providing rest and being man's best invention. The document provides activities for students to explain reasons why reading and books are beneficial and to create visual representations of the benefits of reading and books. It begins an overview of the history of reading, noting that early humans communicated through grunts and gestures before developing oral language.

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Module

This document provides an overview of Module 1 of an education course on developmental reading. It includes quotes about the benefits of reading from various authors. It discusses how reading gives friends to guide growth, exercises the mind, and provides knowledge and experience. It also includes quotes about the value of books in providing rest and being man's best invention. The document provides activities for students to explain reasons why reading and books are beneficial and to create visual representations of the benefits of reading and books. It begins an overview of the history of reading, noting that early humans communicated through grunts and gestures before developing oral language.

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Module

in
Develop
mental

Reading
1
(Educ101A)
Prepared by:
Ayra Mae F. Yayen
Instructor
Lesson 1 A Preview on Reading

Learn from great minds:


Thoughts on reading:

o Reading early in life gives a youngster a multitude of friends to guide intellectual and
emotional growth. (Caroll Gray)
o Reading is to mind what exercise is to the body. (Richard Sleete)
o After three days without reading, talk become flavorless. (Chinese proverb)
o Once you learn to read you will be forever free. (Frederick Douglass)
o The delights of reading imparts the vivacity of youth even in old age. (Isaac disrelli)
o Reading maketh a full man. (Francis Bacon)
o The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it console, it excites, it gives you
knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
(Elizabeth Hardwick)
Thoughts on books which contain reading materials:
A book is a garden carried in a pocket. (Chinese proverb)
A man without books is as a body without soul. (Cicero)
The book is mans best invention so far. (Carolina Maria de Jesus)
I have sought rest everywhere, and only found it in corners, and books. (Thomas a
Kempis)
o You dont have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
(Ray Bradbury)
o Books we must have though we lack bread. (Alice Williams Brotherston)
o Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations.
(Henry David Thoreau)
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Activity 1
In your opinion, give brief reasons why:
1. Reading books can be your friend.
2. Reading exercises the mind.
3. You can have more topics/facts for conversation after reading.
4. Books sparked peoples freedom movements.
5. Reading can foster a rich and fulfilling life.
6. Libraries contain wealth.
7. A book is like a garden.
8. Churches burn heretical books; states censor radical books.
9. Books are one of mans great inventions.
10. You should bring a book during long travel.

Activity 2
Create two separate web graphs/figures to show the benefits provided by (a) reading and (b)
books.

Lesson 2 The History of Reading

Look at the distant past:


o According to paleontologists who study fossils and other evidences of life on earth, the
first man was a latecomer on earth and appeared on the planet only about one hundred
thousand years ago. But even during those primitive days, man walked upright, had
adaptable hands and a brain which enabled him to devise ways to show superior strength
and cunning. And as he lived in communities, he was a social being who communicated
with his kind.
o In the beginning, however, he employed grunts and body language using gestures and
postures to convey his ideas and needs to others. Slowly, he developed oral language
which enabled him to

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