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?
Many many thousands of years olf. Linguistics it eh scientific study of language. 
Okay, what culture has the most linguistics?
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of language. It involves analysing language form, language meaning, and language in context. The earliest activities in the documentation and description of language have been attributed to the 6th-century-BC Indian grammarian Pāṇini who wrote a formal description of the Sanskrit language in his "".
Linguists traditionally analyse human language by observing an interplay between sound and meaning. Phonetics is the study of speech and non-speech sounds, and delves into their acoustic and articulatory properties. The study of
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