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There are gernerally four sources of knowledge; intuition, authority, rational induction, and empiricism.

– Following are the sources of knowing: sense experience, reason, authority, intuition, faith and revelation. Among these, the knowledge through sense experience and reasoning were considered to be the most reliable sources of knowledge.

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A growing body of research indicates that reading literally changes your mind. Using MRI scans, researchers have confirmed that reading involves a complex network of circuits and signals in the brain. As your reading ability matures, those networks also get stronger and more sophisticated.

Learning to read is about listening and understanding as well as working out what is printed on the page. Through hearing stories, children are exposed to a wide range of words. This helps them build their own vocabulary and improve their understanding when they listen, which is vital as they start to read.

Reading 20 minutes a day exposes kids to a vast quantity of words (1.8 million in each school year, actually!). And this exposure makes children more likely to score in the 90th percentile on standardized tests.

Reading is making meaning from print. It requires that we: Identify the words in print – a process called word recognition. Construct an understanding from them – a process called comprehension. Coordinate identifying words and making meaning so that reading is automatic and accurate – an achievement called fluency.

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Five Stages of Reading Development

• the emerging pre-reader (typically between 6 months to 6 years old);
• the novice reader (typically between 6 to 7 years old);
• the decoding reader (typically between 7 – 9 years old);
• the fluent, comprehending reader (typically between 9 – 15 years old); and.
• the expert reader (typically from 16 years and older).

Reading is defined as a cognitive process that involves decoding symbols to arrive at meaning. Reading is an active process of constructing meanings of words. Reading is a thinking process. It allows the reader to use what he or she may already know, also called prior knowledge.

An example of reading is books or magazines. Reading is the act of looking at printed words and understanding or comprehending what they are saying, or the act of saying those words out loud or of interpreting those words. An example of reading is when you look at a book and the words in it and understand the story.

Besides, reading influences how much an individual remember and understand the text. The three stages of reading are pre-reading, through reading and post-reading.