1. Blog
2. Articles
3. Songs
4. Poetry
5. Drama
6. Advertisements
7. Billboards
8. Television
9. Brochures
10. Grocery packages
11. Grocery receipts
12. Bills
13. Bank Statements
14. Notes
15. Text messages
16. Emails
17. Magazines
18. Tabloids
19. Newspapers
20. Timetable: school, examination
21. Bus routes, tickets
22. Train routes, tickets
23. Street directories
24. Recipe books
25. Novels
26. Storybooks
27. Textbooks
28. Invitation and greeting cards
29. Medical Reports
30. Log books
31. Finance and accounts
32. Holy scriptures and books
33. Certificates
34. Badges
35. Signboards
36. Shopping events
37. Sales
38. Cds and dvds covers
39. Games
40. Name cards
41. Meetings
42. Conferences
43. Window shopping
44. Attend meeting
45. Attend conference
46. Subtitles
47. Headlines

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.

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.