Language is the art of communication. Language is speaking, listening, and writing. Language is letting other people know what you are thinking. Language is understanding what the orator or writer is trying to say. Whether it is sign language for the deaf, Braille for the blind, hieroglyphics, speaking, or the grunting of cavemen, people have used language to communicate every day of their lives.
Then there is reading. Reading is interpreting what someone has written and translating it into ideas so that one can become in tune with the writer and the ideas trying to be passed on. Reading involves looking at something, whether it is a word or picture and transforming it into ideas to be analyzed and understood. Reading is looking at something and making the connection between the objec
Language and reading are directly related. Without language there would not be reading. For, have we no language, we have nothing to write, and therefore, nothing to read. Reading exists because people used language to communicate. Now, "How does communicating through language lead to reading?" one may ask. Back in the day, before gel-ink pens and mechanical pencils and chalk, people spoke to each other. Communication was strictly oral and consisted of speaking and making sounds. A person can only tell a story so many times before he or she becomes sick of telling it. It was then that people decided to use pictures and symbols to stand for words and put them down on substances such as stone and animal hides. In order to understand what the illustrator meant, a person had to "read" th
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