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
Phoenician

Alphabet
entirely composed
of Consonants

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
reading is:

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
Anderson et al., 1985
Reading is the process of
constructing meaning from
the written text.

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 do 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 therapy.

Explain the following

Quotations:

1. Reading is to the mind while

exercise is to the body.
------Joseph Addison
2. Reading gives us a place to go
When we have to stay where we are.
------- Mason Cooley

3. Books, I found, had the power to make

stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
-------- Jim Bishop
4. You dont have to turn books to destroy a
culture; Just get people to stop reading
them.
---------- Ray Bradbury

5. I think of life as a good book.

The further you get into it the
more it begin to make sense.
------------- P. Brougham

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we encounter a man
with rare intellect, we
should ask him what
books he reads.

Angela Carter

Reading a book is like

rewriting it for yourself.

ANONYMOUS
Asking me if I like reading
is
like asking me if I like Breathing.

Francis Bacon
Some books should be tasted,
some devoured, but only a few
should be chewed and
digested thoroughly.