Learning to Read - Reading to Learn

First you Learn to Read and then you Read to Learn.

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” Theodor Seuss Geisel.

"Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything".

Learning to read should be an incredible journey. When you first learn to how to read, you should also be learning about yourself and the world around you at the same time. Reading should be constantly moving you forward in life. Read to Learn.

"Read the Best Books First, or you may not have a chance to read them at all." Henry David Thoreau - If you don't read the things that matter then knowing how to read doesn't matter. Read to Learn.

When teaching someone to read, make sure the person reads words that helps them understand themselves and the world around them. So as a person learns to read, they learn more then just words.

Text-to-Self Connection is a connection between the text and something in your own life experience.
Text-to-World Connection is a connection between the text and something that is occurring or has occurred in the world.

Three of the most important things in your life: 1: Learn How to Read. 2: Learn how to Comprehend what you are Reading. 3: Read the most Valuable Knowledge and Information that you can find, things that will increase your understanding of yourself and things that will increase your understanding of the world around you. 

Reading Example of Reading to Learn and not just Learning to Read

My name is _______ and I am _____ years old. I am just learning how to Read. Knowing how to read is extremely important. This is because most of the worlds most valuable knowledge and information is in the text format or in the written word. This means that most of my learning will come from reading. And Learning is extremely important. If I do not learn how to understand and comprehend what I am reading, then it will be just like not having access to the worlds most valuable knowledge and information. And words are not just for communicating with other people, but more importantly, words are used to communicate with myself. If I know most of the valuable words in my language, I can then learn to understand myself more accurately and understand the world around me more accurately. Reading and Learning will give me incredible potential with unlimited possibilities. So I will promise to read something valuable everyday and also learn something valuable everyday. I understand that reading and learning is my responsibility. To be great, you have to be a great reader and read great things.

I Promise to Learn

I have the power to learn anything that I want to. But I first have to acquire the necessary skills, knowledge and information that would give me this power to learn anything that I want to. Sometimes learning certain things takes a long time. But the rewards of learning will always give me endless potential with endless possibilities. Once I learn the necessary skills, knowledge and information, I will have the ability understand everything about myself and understand everything about the world around me. Once I learn the necessary skills, knowledge and information, I will be able to solve any problem in the world and be able to fix and improve anything that I put my mind to. Once I learn the necessary skills, knowledge and information, I will be able to learn from any mistake that I make, or learn from any mistake that others will make. I will also be able to handle any catastrophe, any struggle, any disaster or any tragedy that I will experience in my life, all because I have learned the necessary skills, knowledge and information. Once I learn the necessary skills, knowledge and information, I will be able to choose any career that I want, work any job that I choose, and I will be able to follow any dream that I have. The Power of Knowledge is a lot of work and a big responsibility. But I promise that I will never stop learning, or will I ever stop trying. My goal is to become an intelligent Human. I will always love myself and I will always love others with compassion. I will never forget that my life is incredibly special and very important. My best is yet to come......

Students Pledge

This mantra or saying will be read once a week. This exercise will act as a reminder and is similar to the Teachers Promise.

I have the power to learn anything that I want to.
I have the ability to understand everything about myself and the ability to understand everything about the world around me.
I have the ability to solve any problem in the world. I also have the ability to fix and improve anything that I put my mind to.
I have the ability to learn from any mistake that I make, and the ability to learn from any mistake that others will make.
I am also able to handle any catastrophe, any struggle, any disaster or any tragedy that I will experience in my life, all because I have learned the necessary skills, knowledge and information.
I have the ability to choose any career that I want, work any job that I choose, and follow any dream that I have.
I promise that I will never stop learning, or will I ever stop trying. My goal is to become an intelligent Human.
I will always love myself and I will always love others with compassion.
I will never forget that my life is incredibly special and very important. My best is yet to come.

Reading and Learning at the Same Time

When you are Learning to Read, you should read things that are relevant and important about yourself and the world around you. Imagine learning how to read words that are perfectly aligned with helping you to understand yourself and the world around you. Imagine learning how to read words that are perfectly aligned with helping you to solve a particular problem that you are currently having? What if that problem was an emotional problem? Or personal problem? What if that problem was a relationship problem? And reading or hearing the right words was all that you needed for you to understand that problem, so that it would help you to solve that problem. Never underestimate the power of words, the power of learning, the power of knowledge, or the power of having the right information at the right time.

Simultaneous Subject Learning - In Logically Order Steps

Brain Maintenance - Learning Methods (breathing)

What if the words that you were learning how to read, actually matched perfectly with what you wanted to learn? And matched perfectly with the way you are thinking? What if the words transmitted information that was exactly what you were looking for?

Teaching your Children to Talk - Speech

Teaching Young Students by Example

Reading is an extremely valuable skill. Knowing how to read can connect you with millions of people who have lots of valuable knowledge and skills that has been passed down for hundreds of years. So there's a tremendous amount of knowledge and skills that has been shared in the written language by millions of people. And all this knowledge that the human race has acquired has grown, expanded and improved to such an incredible level, that the true power of knowledge is just now being realized. This wealth of knowledge is way beyond anyone's imagination. It is definitely a game changer. When knowledge is finally available to every person on earth, this world will go through so many improvements and advancements that this generation in 2021, will look barbaric to future generations. Future generations will be horrified to read about all the poverty, the corruption, the wars, the deaths and the diseases, and they will wonder, how did the human race overcome so many failures and so many countless mistakes. And we will answer, "We finally realized the true power of knowledge and we also made knowledge a birth right to every human born."

Over the last 2 thousand years, millions of people have contributed to our incredible wealth of knowledge, knowledge that has benefited my life and other peoples lives in many different ways. So in return, I will add to this enormous resource of knowledge by learning and seeking out more valuable information and more knowledge. Knowledge that can be shared that would help make improvements in our world. This way I can benefit people today and also benefit people in the future, the same way that I have benefited from people who shared knowledge and information throughout human history. I am very important to the cycle of life.

Education Software for Learning How to Read

Still in Development - Beta (2018)

Get Paid to Learn. As you Learn How to Read you will Read How to Learn, and at the same time, Earn as you Learn.

Score Points for every letter learned.
Score Points for every word learned.
Score Points for every letter learned to write.
Score Points for every word learned to write, and so on.

Levels: Beginner to Expert

Word Definitions will Include: Numbers, Shapes, Symbols, Minerals, Science, Electronics, Sounds, Objects, Food, Colors, Body Parts, Tools, Abilities, Senses, Behaviors and Language Grammar, to name a few.

Words have more then one Definition or Meaning

Beginner Level Students will see one or two basic definitions of a word along with the most important meaning and use of that word. But some words will have to show more then one meaning whether it's an adjective, noun or verb. Beginner Level students will also learn that even though words can have more then one meaning, the main meaning or the root meaning of a word is the most important. And when the student hears a word being used differently, then they will know to ask questions and infer its intended meaning if needed. A Learner's Dictionary or Defining Dictionary with Simple to Understand Definitions of Words that are easy to Translate and Interpret.

English Language - ESL - Reading Knowledge

A students vocabulary should have enough words that are needed to understand the majority of the basics in life, language and communication. But students should also have the necessary words that are needed to begin to understand the much larger complexities in life, language and communication, this way learning is never hindered or slowed. They should understand the words in their toolbox and how they are used, and they should also know the words that still need to learn and add to the toolbox. A student should always have milestones and goals, and also understand why they're important to achieve.

Expert Level Students will see expanded meanings and definitions of words and symbols. Expert Level students will also learn to analyze the complexities of word uses and learn to avoid generalizing. If a word has more then one definition, then students will learn how to use more words around that word so as to define the words meaning and make the message more clear and understood. BK101 will have its own Advanced Dictionary because most dictionaries can be ineffective and misleading, same goes for encyclopedias.

Touchscreen Features: Word and Letter will have Sounds on Mouse over or Finger Touch (makes the sound of the Word or Letter). (can modify voice). Mouse over can also display images or text to give more visual details or more meaning to a word or phrase.

This Education Software is Not Finished - (Still in Development)

This is a brief outline of the Learn to Read software in development. This is just the beginning. It will include Letter sounds, writing letters and words, word meanings, word uses, and instructions on how to use words and language effectively and efficiently. (Software will have a demonstration video and instructions).

Project Started: October, 2017 - Estimated Finish Date: April, 2021

As you learn how to read, you will also learn about yourself and the world around you. So you are not just learning how to read, you are also becoming more intelligent. And you will also have more skills and more abilities, and even more money.

Children prefer storybooks that explain why and how things happen. Children have a never-ending curiosity about the world around them and frequently question how and why it works the way it does. Researchers have previously demonstrated that children are interested in causal information, but had not yet linked this to a real-world activity, such as reading. A new study finds that children prefer causally-rich storybooks, suggesting that such content may be more engaging and could help to increase children's interest in reading. Children have an insatiable appetite to understand why things are the way they are, leading to their apt description as "little scientists." While researchers have been aware of children's interest in causal information, they didn't know whether it influenced children's preferences during real-world activities, such as reading.

Learning should be Easy, Fun and Rewarding.

There's 26 letters in the English alphabet that can be assembled and put together to form and create over a million words that can be used to send, receive and process information. Language gives you the ability to transmit information through speaking, writing, gesturing. Language also gives you the ability to receive information through listening and understanding the sounds that words make. You can also receive information through understanding the meanings and definitions of words and symbols by using sight or touch. Language also gives you the ability to process information and think about information and come up with new ideas by using the human brains ability to store language, words, definitions and experiences using memories and the process of learning.

Letters in the English Alphabet

A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z

Alphabet Song

Upper Case Big Letters and Lower Case Small Letters
side by side.

A a    B b    C c    D d    E e    F f    G g

H h    I i     J j    K k    L l    M m  N n    O o    P p   

Q q    R r    S s    T t    U u    V v    W w    X x    Y y    Z z

Letter Case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger upper-case (also uppercase, capital letters, capitals, caps, large letters, or more formally majuscule) and smaller lower-case (also lowercase, small letters, or more formally minuscule) in the written representation of certain languages. The writing systems that distinguish between the upper and lower case have two parallel sets of letters, with each letter in one set usually having an equivalent in the other set. The two case variants are alternative representations of the same letter: they have the same name and pronunciation and are treated identically when sorting in alphabetical order. Letter case is generally applied in a mixed-case fashion, with both upper- and lower-case letters appearing in a given piece of text. The choice of case is often prescribed by the grammar of a language or by the conventions of a particular discipline. In orthography, the upper case is primarily reserved for special purposes, such as the first letter of a sentence or of a proper noun, which makes the lower case the more common variant in regular text. In some contexts, it is conventional to use one case only. For example, engineering design drawings are typically labelled entirely in upper-case letters, which are easier to distinguish than the lower case, especially when space restrictions require that the lettering be small. In mathematics, on the other hand, letter case may indicate the relationship between objects, with upper-case letters often representing "superior" objects (e.g. X could be a set containing the generic member x).

Typographically, the basic difference between the majuscules and minuscules is not that the majuscules are big and minuscules small, but that the majuscules generally have the same height (although, depending on the typeface, there may be some exceptions, particularly with Q and sometimes J having a descending element; also, various diacritics can add to the normal height of a letter). There is more variation in the height of the minuscules, as some of them have parts higher (ascenders) or lower (descenders) than the typical size. Normally, b, d, f, h, k, l, t are the letters with ascenders, and g, j, p, q, y are the ones with descenders. Writing Tips.

All Caps refers to text or a font in which all letters are capital letters.

Capitalization is writing a word with its first letter as a capital letter (uppercase letter) and the remaining letters in lower case in writing systems with a case distinction. The term is also used for the choice of case in text.

Small Caps are lowercase characters typeset with glyphs that resemble uppercase letters ("capitals") but reduced in height and weight, close to the surrounding lowercase (small) letters or text figures.

Lowercase letters have a more distinctive shape than capital letters, therefore they can be perceived more quickly than uppercase letters. Because readers are frequently exposed to a word, they no longer have to "read" the word, but instantly recognize the meaning by the familiar shape of the group of letters. Word Spacing.

Letter Case and Text Legibility in normal and Low Vision. It is thought by cognitive scientists and typographers alike, that lower-case text is more legible than upper-case. Yet lower-case letters are, on average, smaller in height and width than upper-case characters, which suggests an upper-case advantage. Using a single unaltered font and all upper-, all lower-, and mixed-case text, we assessed size thresholds for words and random strings, and reading speeds for text with normal and visually impaired participants. Lower-case thresholds were roughly 0.1 log unit higher than upper-. Reading speeds were higher for upper- than for mixed-case text at sizes twice acuity size; at larger sizes, the upper-case advantage disappeared. Results suggest that upper-case is more legible than the other case styles, especially for visually-impaired readers, because smaller letter sizes can be used than with the other case styles, with no diminution of legibility.

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Word Rank - Some of the Words that are used on average when writing or speaking, which depends on the document scanned. Of course these words below are not enough to communicate effectively on there own. Transition Words.


Even though these are some of the most used words when writing and speaking, you would not be able to communicate effectively or efficiently enough using just these words. This is why you need to have thousands of words in your vocabulary. Language is extremely important in life, and not just for yourself, but for everyone else, and also everything in the universe. This is because the Language of Math is almost everywhere. Human senses are beneficial, but not as beneficial as language, our ability to process information needs a language. The other human senses will act instinctively because of their innate functions, but the human sense to receive, process and transmit information could never function to its full capability without a language. All human senses get better with experience, but in order to understand that experience you need to have a language. And then you have to learn how to use language. Language is related to Pattern Recognition, but patterns need symbolic representation. You need to be able to differentiate or know the difference between each symbolic representation. And then you need a system that can be repeatable and reliable in interpreting patterns in a meaningful way. The ability to recognize patterns is extremely important. A person could recognize a pattern in a test, but only when someone is asking them if they can see a pattern. But what if no one asked you if you could see a pattern? Would you know enough to look for a pattern and know the questions that you need to ask? There are patterns almost everywhere in reality. And if you don't know how to recognize these patterns, you will be vulnerable and hindered. Word Count.