Sight and Sound

Sight And Sound

When wanting to relax or take a break from everything, most would go to a quiet place and maybe read a book. With the technology being so advanced these days, it is possible to download or buy your favorite book or story in audio. It has always been more traditional to read a book when trying to get some peace and quiet, but the world changes every day. Although there are some things that are similar about reading and listening to a story, they are both very different and a lot of people are willing to do more of one than the other. Reading has always been something that people do to expand their vocabulary and increase their knowledge, but with younger people, especially, it is getting old to open a book and flip through pages. There is now an option when wanting to read a book; to open it, or to press play.

A storybook is one of the first things that teach young children how to read and talk. Even adults, now, read books to improve their speech and knowledge. For thousands of years, people have been reading, and unlike listening to audio books, it takes time and effort. When reading a book, seeing the words and hearing them in the mind to further understand them are how knowledge is built. Seeing each letter can help the brain process and sound out the actual word. However, reading can sometimes tires the brain and can bore a person so that they feel like they need to rest their eyes. It is easier to lay back and rest while focusing on a person that reads to you with a solemn voice and absolutely no mistakes or stutter. People can have a choice to take the time to read to relax himself or herself or to set back and have someone read to you and let you focus closely on every word that is said.

Everywhere that people go and wherever they may turn, there is always something that needs to be read or there are words that are supposed to mean something. Whether it is a street sign or a McDonald's billboard, it has some kind of meaning and is placed so that everyone will read it. But audio is also very important to everyone and, it too, is something that people should pay attention too. Everyone should be able to hear words or a story and be able to process them into something that has a meaning. Being able to put a sentence together in the mind is a necessity as well as reading and rearranging the words to make sense. Both hearing and reading have a huge part in being able to improve speech and expand knowledge.

Although reading is more of an effort when it comes to books, it seems to better vocabulary and help make one smarter. Listening to an audio of a book can exercise the brain to make more sense of the words that are being said and to help practice vocabulary also. However, listening to someone else read the story or talk doesn't have as much of an affect and is a lot easier. There is no doubt that people should stop reading because they would rather just