What is Reading? At an early age, when I learned to read words, I was excited because I was now a reader, but was I actually reading or just lifting words off the paper? While this is necessary for reading, reading is more complex than simple word recognition. The reader must make sense of the basic words and their context. While engaged in reading, prior knowledge is activated along with personal connection, ideas and opinions. Unfortunately, children will develop reading problems if they get the necessary stills that will allow them to function at a higher level and succeed in life. Jennings, Caldwell, and Lerner (2010) stated that it is said that “children must learn to read so that they can then read to learn” (p. 4). Therefore, reading is the foundation that children need to succeed in life. Jennings, Caldwell, and Lerner (2010) recommend that to help children read better and develop a love of reading, rely on teaching professionals as they are the planners and managers of reading. implementation of educational services (page 3). It is understandable that although there are different levels of readers, the ultimate goal is for teachers to create good readers in children. Jennings, Caldwell, and Lerner (2010) argue that reading means making sense of the text. The reader generates his own mental version of what he has read (p. 13). In my field experience, I have seen children who could read any word on paper but had no opinion about what was happening in the story. I have also experienced teachers becoming frustrated when their students are unable to decipher or decode words in context or connect to the text. Jennings, Caldwell, and Lerner (2010) talked about the three elements of reading. There is the reader, the reading material and the reading situation. The reader's brain is super active as it makes sense of the material and creates a version that fits the reader's schema (p. 13). As I think back to Jennings, Caldwell and Lerner's observation, I remember reading about a Niagara Falls at a young age in Jamaica, West Indies and not knowing what Niagara Falls looked like, I thought it looked like Dunn's River Fall . in Jamaica. Years later I realized that Dunn's River Falls cannot be compared to Niagara Falls.