I love reading! How do you feel about it?
I love the process and the idea of it, since it is so fascinating thinking about reading and decoding symbols to construct or derive meaning from it.
It is pretty amazing the ideas that come from those symbols.
Reading
Reading is the complex cognitive process of decoding symbols to derive meaning. It is a form of language processing.
Success in this process is measured as "reading comprehension". Reading is a means for language acquisition, communication, and sharing information and ideas. The symbols are typically visual (written or printed) but may be tactile (Braille). Like all languages, it is a complex interaction between text and reader, shaped by prior knowledge, experiences, attitude, and the language community—which is
books for children are recommended to improve engagement in reading by featuring the child themselves in the story.
Before the reintroduction of separated text in the late Middle Ages, the ability to read silently was considered rather remarkable.
Reading skills.
Literacy is the ability to use the symbols of a writing system. It is the ability to interpret what the information symbols represent, and re-create those same symbols so that others can derive the same meaning. Illiteracy is the inability to derive meaning from the symbols used in