THE ACT OF READING The wor(l)d reading

Reading: interaction space between a sender (text author) and a receiver (reader), which both of them builds a sense.

Reading is not a one-way process, but a dialogical process.

Text: a sense unit, not necessarily a verbal text. It is a lacunate space, those gaps has been filled by reader.

Reading as a counterword space: author and reader are provisory places. The senses are continually built, in a continuous and dialogical process.

A reader needs to be ready for a reading experience and to assume a critical and dialogical position.

Reading: a responsive and responsible act.

World reading: precedes the word

reading. It is a student previous

knowledge, its life experiences, sociocultural

repertoire, built senses about the

environment which it lives.

Reading is not a decoding activity. Reading is an answer and a choice – is to act over world.

The act of reading: crucial act to develop a critical awareness about the individual role at society and its capacity to change the world.

When a person opens to the different, has to deal with new ideas, people, experiences, finally opens its perceptual range and enriched its repertoire, helping it to change itself.

Video: Reading inspires children

“Reading the word and learning how to

write the word so one can later read it are

preceded by learning how to write the

world, that is having the experience of

changing the world and touching the

world”.

Paulo Freire (1921-1997), brazilian educator

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