Module

in
Develop
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Reading
1
(Educ101A)
Prepared by:
Ayra Mae F. Yayen
Instructor
Lesson 1 A Preview on Reading

Learn from great minds:

Thoughts on reading:

o Reading early in life gives a youngster a multitude of friends to guide intellectual and
emotional growth. (Caroll Gray)
o Reading is to mind what exercise is to the body. (Richard Sleete)
o After three days without reading, talk become flavorless. (Chinese proverb)
o Once you learn to read you will be forever free. (Frederick Douglass)
o The delights of reading imparts the vivacity of youth even in old age. (Isaac disrelli)
o Reading maketh a full man. (Francis Bacon)
o The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it console, it excites, it gives you
knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
(Elizabeth Hardwick)
Thoughts on books which contain reading materials:
A book is a garden carried in a pocket. (Chinese proverb)
A man without books is as a body without soul. (Cicero)
The book is mans best invention so far. (Carolina Maria de Jesus)
I have sought rest everywhere, and only found it in corners, and books. (Thomas a
Kempis)
o You dont have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
(Ray Bradbury)
o Books we must have though we lack bread. (Alice Williams Brotherston)
o Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations.
(Henry David Thoreau)
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Activity 1
In your opinion, give brief reasons why:
1. Reading books can be your friend.
2. Reading exercises the mind.
3. You can have more topics/facts for conversation after reading.
4. Books sparked peoples freedom movements.
5. Reading can foster a rich and fulfilling life.
6. Libraries contain wealth.
7. A book is like a garden.
8. Churches burn heretical books; states censor radical books.
9. Books are one of mans great inventions.
10. You should bring a book during long travel.

Activity 2
Create two separate web graphs/figures to show the benefits provided by (a) reading and (b)
books.

Lesson 2 The History of Reading

Look at the distant past:

o According to paleontologists who study fossils and other evidences of life on earth, the
first man was a latecomer on earth and appeared on the planet only about one hundred
thousand years ago. But even during those primitive days, man walked upright, had
adaptable hands and a brain which enabled him to devise ways to show superior strength
and cunning. And as he lived in communities, he was a social being who communicated
with his kind.
o In the beginning, however, he employed grunts and body language using gestures and
postures to convey his ideas and needs to others. Slowly, he developed oral language
which enabled him to