Five Fun Facts About Reading and Books
English is a difficult language to learn to read, because 14 of the 26 letters in the English alphabet make multiple sounds. Often, reading programs typically combine letters, and have many complicated rules in order to learn to read. However, that doesn’t not mean reading and books can’t be fun!
The Nardagani Reading Program is designed to eliminate the guesswork involved in reading. The program is comprised of 12 simple symbols, used below letters, that allow the reader to know which sound to make. Students learn a few symbols at a time. They memorize the symbols through exercises, games, and reading books coded with the symbols. Once students learn the first few symbols, they work on sounding out words, and increase their list of sight words.
Here are interesting facts about reading and books:
Bookworms actually exist! This is a commonly used name for hundreds of insects that feed on books, including a booklouse, a Mexican book beetle, and a paper worm.
Did you know: Sometimes the best thing about a book is the wonderful sensation of bibliosmia? Bibliosmia is a word that means “the smell or aroma of old books.”
3. The Gutenberg Bible was the earliest major book printed. In the mid-1450s, Johann Gutenberg invented the printing press and published more than 150 copies of The Holy Bible in Latin in Mainz, Germany.
4. The three most read books in the world are: The Holy Bible, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, and Harry Potter.
5. If you read 20 minutes a day, you would read 1.8 million words in a year! Illiteracy is still a huge problem throughout the world. One in five adults around the world can’t read or write, with the highest rates in South and West Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. So, read each and every day!
Click here to learn more about the Nardagani Reading Program and watch Narda’s TEDx talk, “A New Way to Learn to Read English.”
