I love reading, Knowledge is power!
Reading is so wonderful! I love to read to my kids. One of our favorite books is The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by author L. Frank Baum  and published in 1900!
What can you tell me about the history of reading?
Reading has been occuring in so many years in so many different cultures. There are multiple interpretations of it because of that. 
Interesting, what else do you know about reading?
There are many strategies people use to decode the words and comprehend what is being said. DEcoding is how you are making the symbols into the representation for speech. 
How old is the process of reading?
Language
Language is a system that consists of the development, acquisition, maintenance and use of complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so; a language is any specific example of such a system.
The scientific study of language is called linguistics. Questions concerning the philosophy of language, such as whether words can represent experience, have been debated at least since Gorgias and Plato in ancient Greece. Thinkers such as Rousseau have argued that language originated from emotions while others like Kant have held that it originated
Where is the yellow brick road when you need it' or 'I see the yellow Brick road' has transiently passed into and out of the vernacular, the 'yellow brick road' being analogous to 'light at the end of the tunnel', the phrase can be used optimistically, sarcastically, or cynically.
See also.
- Political interpretations of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"
Further reading.
- Dighe, Ranjit S. ed. "The Historian's Wizard of Oz: Reading L. Frank