cognitive process of decoding symbols to derive meaning; a form of language processing From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Reading is understanding writing in a language. Fundamentally, reading is the way people look at certain marks and know what they mean.
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Once it was possible to go through life without reading. Writing goes back in human history only a few thousand years, and 200 years ago most men could not read or write. We know this is true because they could not write their own names on marriage records in churches. Most men worked in farming, and you can do most of that job without being able to read. The wives could read: they lived at home before marriage and their mothers taught them. The boys went to work at, say, nine or ten, and never learnt to read.
Reading is understanding what is printed or written.[1][2] It is how you get information about something that is written. It can only be done if one knows the language. Otherwise, you can only learn from other people telling you verbally, or from practical demonstration.
One of the things writing does is create imaginary worlds. On the other hand, writing can be about practical life. That is a huge range of possibilities. Writing had to be invented: it sometimes comes as a shock to realise this.[3] Much later, printing was invented. That took writing out of churches into the wider world, the world we all live in.
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