ABSTRACT
It is generally true, as I argued in Unit 2, that the role played by certain kinds of books and texts in learning to read has tended, up until quite recently, to have been neglected by educationalists and teachers. But it is possible to argue that it is what you read (or have read to you) that exerts a crucial influence on the kind of reader you become. What you read might well determine how you read, whether you read, and even how you define what reading is and what it is good for.
