developmental reading - preview on reading and history of reading

A Preview on Reading

What is Reading?

What is reading?

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”

–Richard Sleete

What is reading?

“The delights of reading imparts the vivacity of youth even in

old age.” –Isaac d’isrelli

What is reading?

“Reading maketh a full man.” –Francis Bacon

What is reading?

“The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it

excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.

It is moral illumination.” –Elizabeth Hardwick

Books with reading materials:

“A book is a garden carried in a pocket.”

–Chinese Proverb

Books with reading materials:

“A man without books is as a body without a soul.”

–Cicero

Books with reading materials:

“The book is man’s best invention so far.”

–Carolina Maria de Jesus

Books with reading materials:

“I have sought rest everywhere, and only found it in corners, and

books.” –Thomas a Kempis

Books with reading materials:

“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people

to stop reading them.” –Ray Bradbury

Books with reading materials:

“Books we must have though we lack bread.”

–Alice Williams Brotherston

Books with reading materials:

“Books are treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of

generations.” –Henry David Thoreau

YES or NO1. Reading is a burden in work and life.2. Personally, it has not been useful in your

studies.3. For men and women of great minds, they are

avoided and set aside.4. People do not find books as sources of rest

and enjoyment.5. The library is not a wholesome place to stay

and spend time in.

What is Reading?

Reading is powerful.

The History of Reading

“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.”

-Barbara Trishman

Modern man:

• Mass media –newspapers, magazines, advertisements, etc,.

• Modern form of communication –mobile phone, internet

Have you ever wondered how reading originated?

Where did it all start?

Everything in the universe including man has a beginning.

First man:• Latecomer on earth (accdg. to paleontologists)• Appeared on the planet only about 100,000

years ago• Primitive days: man walked upright, had

adaptable hands and a brain which enabled him to devise ways to show superior strength to cunning.

• A social being who communicated with his kind.

Beginning:• Employed grunts and body language

(gestures and postures) to convey ideas and needs

• Slowly developed oral language to express messages more clearly

• Devised symbols corresponding to oral messages due to the need to communicate to others who are distant in place

Evidences:Old Stone Age(rock painting)

Cuneiform(picture writing)

Sumerian Civilization(3000 to 4000 B.C.)

Baked tablets:•Private letters•Business contracts•Accounts•Tax receipts•Royal orders•State records

Egyptian CivilizationHieroglyphics(stone walls of

temples & tombs, wooden coffins)

Invented paper from papyrus plant with

reed pen & ink (water, gum, soot)

Other Civilizations (Syria, Phoenicia, Palestine)Used more permanent materials such as leather rolled into scrolls

Phoenicians letter-symbols or the alphabet (greatest contribution to the progress of ancient civilization)

Simplicity –developed by other people such as Greeks and Romans

Roman system of writing in turn became

the basis for all the systems of writing being

read by modern

people today.

Group Activity:

By way of graph, figures, shapes, or drawings, illustrate

reading as it began and developed human history.

(Timeline)