Reading Characteristics

The reading is a technique or process in which people can decode certain preset signs and the reading characteristics they are the key to social progress.

The origin of reading is uncertain and is clearly lost in human history, but It must be clarified that the reading process is the same regardless of the type of text that has to be read.

Reading characteristics:

1.- Coding.- The first of these characteristics is that it is the complement of the writing "the text”Because the text is the only way that existed to conserve information that with the reading was extracted from an object in which it had been captured graphically.

2.- Texts.- Reading has been applied to different types of texts, and the variety changes according to the existing period, and in this sense these types of writing can be distinguished:

• Cuneiform writing
• Hieroglyphic writing
• Pictographic writing
• Ideographic writing
• Phonetic writing
• Phonetic or alphabetic writing
• Literal writing
• Braille writing
• Musical writing

But regardless of the writing and the message, the procedure is the same, take information contained and reproduce it in some way.

Types of reading.- Reading has different ways of doing it, as there is the traditional reading that is done through the eyes or the reading done by the fingers (used by blind people).

Rules.- Reading has different rules for its realization, such as spelling; These rules allow people to understand well the messages that at a given moment can become ambiguous, above all because of the double meanings that some words can produce, words such as homonyms, homographs etc.

The rules change totally depending on the language, since the pronunciation and writing vary even with the same spellings (letters), or other types of letters and there are even writings that require an interpretive reading, such as ideographic.

Graphic reading.- The graphic reading can be considered the most universal of all, since it is easy for a person to understand the sign of not parking or the sign of rocks falling, without even knowing how to read, so an illiterate person, with dyslexia or another disability can come to understand signs of this type, this has fact that these scriptures are applied on the roads or in places where the population may be confused by the language or by the degree of culture.

Mental interaction.- Tests have been carried out in relation to reading, and it is characterized mainly by being alien to human nature, requires its learning and exercise for its proper management, as well as CT scans have been performed on people who are reading and in the At the time of performing this exercise, a rise in temperature has been found in brain regions that do not light up in people illiterate.

Reading and health.- In a medical aspect, it has been proven that reading and mental exercise can reduce the probability of acquiring the disease of Alzheimer's, and in the case of being suffering from mental exercise, and mainly reading and writing can reduce its effects harmful.

Learning.- Reading was able to establish what we will call the “boom” of learning, achieving with writing to gather useful information that was presented to the human being, from problems to his greatest discoveries, this caused the advancement of aspects What:

1. Religion
2. Story
3. Education
4. Culture
5. Science and
6. Society

Thus, he managed to make his narratives spread more quickly and other types of inventions were promoted, such as:

• The Chinese printing press
• Johannes Gutenberg's printing house
• Papyrus
• Parchment
• Paper
• The ink
• The typewriter
• The photocopier
• The stencil
• Data processors and
• Printers.

Conformation.- Reading is learned mainly by spelling, that is, with letters, which are later formed into syllables and later into words, but each of the letters, syllables and words make up a concept (idea) and the set of ideas and arrangements allow the formation of complete texts with complete ideas and spacious.

Reading technique or mechanics.- They are required:

• Physiology.- which is what allows the introduction of information, as well as a sufficient diet, since a poorly nourished person cannot sustain a prolonged and concentrated reading,
• Psychology .- which is motivation, this is because reading is contrary to human nature and requires discipline to achieve custom.