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History of Reading

This document discusses various topics related to reading including: - A brief history of reading from ancient Sumerian logographs to the addition of spaces between words in the 900s AD. - Definitions of reading from various scholars that describe it as a decoding process, thinking process, and interaction between thought and language. - The significance of reading including making people well-informed, a form of recreation and inspiration, and a type of therapy. - Characteristics of the reading process such as it being a two-way process and dependent on prior knowledge.

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History of Reading

This document discusses various topics related to reading including: - A brief history of reading from ancient Sumerian logographs to the addition of spaces between words in the 900s AD. - Definitions of reading from various scholars that describe it as a decoding process, thinking process, and interaction between thought and language. - The significance of reading including making people well-informed, a form of recreation and inspiration, and a type of therapy. - Characteristics of the reading process such as it being a two-way process and dependent on prior knowledge.

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Topics to be Discussed

Brief History of Reading


Definitions of Reading
Significance of Reading
Guidelines for Effective Reading

BRIEF HISTORY OF
READING
Spoken language is a natural,
biological of human communication
that is over 6 million years old.

Reading is an invention that is only


6000 years old.

TIMELINE
I. 4000 BC

Sumerian
Logographs

TIMELINE
II. 2000 BC
Alphabet
entirely composed
of Consonants

Phoenician

PHOENICIAN ALPHABET
SPKNWRDSRTHSYMBLSFMN
TLXPRNCNDWRTTNWRDSRT
HSYMBLSFSPKNWRDS.
2000 BC

TIMELINE
III. 1000 BC
Greeks added vowels
to the alphabet.

GREEKS ADDED VOWELS


SPOKENWORDSARETHES
YMBOLSOFMENTALEXPE
RIENCEANDWRITTENWO
RDSARETHESYMBOLSOF
SPOKENWORDS.

1000 BC

TIMELINE
IV. 200 BC
Aristophanes' plays add
punctuation.

ARISTOPHANES' PLAYS ADD


PUNCTUATION (200 BC)

SPOKENWORDSARETHES
YMBOLSOFMENTALEXPE
RIENCE,ANDWRITTENW
ORDSARETHESYMBOLSO
FSPOKENWORDS.

TIMELINE
V. 700 AD
Medieval Scribes
Lower Case

LOWER CASE (700 AD)


Spokenwordsarethesymbolsofm
entalexperience,andwrittenword
sarethesymbolsofspokenwords.

TIMELINE
VI. 900 AD
Medieval Scribes
Spaces between Words

SPACES BET.WORDS (900 AD)


Spoken words are the symbols
of mental experience, and
written words are the symbols
of spoken words.

READING DEFINED

DEFINITIONS OF READING
LAPP AND FLOOD (1978) states that
all categories.

a decoding process
reading for meaning

DEFINITIONS OF READING
R. STRANG defined reading as:
- primarily a visual task
- word recoginition
- merely reproducing
- a thinking process

DEFINITIONS OF READING
FRANCIS BACON
According to Francis Bacon reading
maketh a full man, conference a
ready man, an writing an exact man.

DEFINITIONS OF READING
FRANK SMITH defined reading as:
- a psycholinguistic guessing game.
It involves interaction between
thought and language.

DEFINITIONS OF READING
KENNETH GOODMAN stated that

the greatest gift is the passion for


reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it
distracts, it excites, it gives you
knowledge of the world and experience
of a wide kind.

DEFINITIONS OF READING
DECHANT opines that reading is
clearly a process which is only
complete when comprehension is
attained.

READING PROCESS
AND ITS
CHARACTERISTICS

CHARACTERISTICS OF
READING PROCESS
Reading is a two way process.

Reading makes use of a linguistic


system which enables readers to be more
effective users of written language.
Effective reading is partly dependent on
the reader's prior knowledge or
background experiences.

SIGNIFICANCE
OF READING

SIGNIFICANCE OF READING
These are some of the important things
that reading does for us.
Reading makes us well-informed.
Reading can be worthwhile form of recreation.
Books we read can be a source of inspiration.
Reading can be a form of theraphy.

Explain the following Quotes:


1. Reading is to the mind while
exercise is to the bod
------Joseph Addison
2. Reading is the basic tool in the living
of a good life.
------- Mortimer J. Adler

Books, I found, had the power to make


stand still

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