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| HOW DO WE READ? This may seem like a silly question, right? After all, we've been reading since first grade, at least. Heck, we're reading this page right now! We never really think about how we read; we just do. Yet, there is a subtle process of making meaning from those typed and scribbled figures. We are left to wonder just how do we make meaning? What occurs between those figures on a page and us that creates and communicates meaning? How do we read? Reading is
also process of making meaning over a series of steps. We first prepare
ourselves for reading when we are given any text, (Text being the words
of any essay, poem, or anything written) just like this one. We automatically
understand that we must decode those symbols on the page. We recognize
those figures as words and automatically assign them meanings. (Thanks
to the English language, we frequently know the function of the
word just by its position in the sentence. English sentences are often
written as:  The sentence constructs a message. (However, if we don't know the meaning of a word in the sentence, the whole message may be lost!)
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