We even postponed bed time to finish a book or story. In three months he developed the foundations of reading. By age 12, he was reading 12th grade material. It allows you to be an airplane pilot, a Chinese cook, or a cowboy right in your own room. Reading asks children to think, imagine, and use their brains in ways very suited to them.
Games are rule-governed activities that use inventiveness, imagination, and thinking.
Reading and baseball are rule-governed activities that use inventiveness, imagination, and thinking. As the author writes, the reader fills in the visual blanks. Take the sentence, The giant mouse chased the cat up of the wise, old miner who always shared his lunch with the young boy with the long beard. Your mental cat is different from my mental cat, and so on. The reader slowly learns to assume the responsibility of creating visual images, using punctuation, inferring, and employing other technical strategies.