Reading is easy for those people who know how to read. It’s like riding a bicycle—scary the first few times you do it without training wheels, but it gets easier until it’s just second nature. And once you learn, it stays with you forever.

Most of us learned how to read in elementary school. We learned the alphabet and how letters sounded. Then, we built words out of these letters and sounded them out—some of us liked sounding them out so much that we got hooked on phonics. We read simple sentences and progressed from there.

Most everyone knows how to speak before they know how to read, so reading is just a solidification of speech. It’s printing the words we already know onto a page. All we had to do was identify which symbols translated to which word sounds. And then the door of infinite possibilities was opened

Of course, if you’re reading this, you already know how to read. And if someone is reading it to you, you can always ask them to teach you to read. The best teachers are people you know well enough to read books to you.

Remember, this is not a book that can teach you how to read. There are plenty of other books on that subject written by much more qualified authors. This section is more of a simple nod to those books and a remembrance of how we all learned to read at one point or another.