Here are 47 things:
- Blog
- Articles
- Songs
- Poetry
- Drama
- Advertisements
- Billboards
- Television
- Brochures
- Grocery packages
- Grocery receipts
- Bills
- Bank Statements
- Notes
- Text messages
- Emails
- Magazines
- Tabloids
- Newspapers
- Timetable: school, examination
- Bus routes, tickets
- Train routes, tickets
- Street directories
- Recipe books
- Novels
- Storybooks
- Textbooks
- Invitation and greeting cards
- Medical Reports
- Log books
- Finance and accounts
- Holy scriptures and books
- Certificates
- Badges
- Signboards
- Shopping events
- Sales
- Cds and dvds covers
- Games
- Name cards
- Meetings
- Conferences
- Window shopping
- Attend meeting
- Attend conference
- Subtitles
- Headlines
Here are 34 things different ways:
1. Driving (motorists use ‘Tom Tom’ to help them read directions on the roads)
2. Having a shower
3. Swimming
4. Running
5. Talking on the phone
6. Baking a cake.
7. Boiling the kettle
8. Mopping the floor
9. Blow drying your hair
10. Cutting fingernails
11. Exercising
12. Dancing
13. Cycling
14. Sleeping
15. Sneezing
16. Coughing
17. Laughing
18. Giggling
19. Trembling
20. Shivering
21. Playing
22. Decorating the house
23. Cleaning
24. Putting on makeup
25. Making craft
26. Painting
27. Eating or drinking
28. Feeding a baby
29. Cooking
30. Sweeping the floor
31. Vacuuming
32. Adjusting our seating position
33. Scratching an itch
34. Stretching our legs
35. Daydreaming
In order to read, we have to stay still; the motorists rely on the traffic lights or signals to tell them when to stop at pedestrian crossings. If they have to read the names on the roads, they would have to slow down their vehicles first. When we are writing, we cannot read. We only read what we have written. And we can only write what we know after we have read about them. Writing is as we have said, is about something we already know. To read and write, to read and work, to read and drive or to read and play at the same time takes lots of eye-hand co-ordination and practice.
Keeping still takes effort; a child can tell you that without even saying so. We all stop reading when we start to move, when our hands and legs are engaged in some form of activity that require us to co-ordinate our muscles. The only thing we can afford to do when we have to read, is to be still. The only thing that deactivates reading when we move a single muscle in our body, including to adjust our seating position or daydreaming in which case we move our gaze from concrete text to the imaginary text or images in our heads.
So Lesson No. 1: Learn To Keep Still.
I have to write this down because I have difficulty remembering what I have read sometimes. I also get fidgety and restless when I have to read a lot. Take a deep breath and take a break. Reading is not an effortless activity, it just appears so because we are motionless when we read.
Would you tell us?
Is that really true? I mean when you are writing, you are not reading? Or I am just confusing myself? Because you can’t write, if you don’t read the letters or words if you will not read it. Now, I am confused.
Thank you for asking this question. I have written a post, We Don’t Read When We Write Or Do We? in response to your question.