ruminating on reading and teaching

I'm trying to figure out how to teach reading to college students in a meaningful way and in a way that matters in their digital world. Not decoding but meaning making. Reading matters but what is reading?  I've never had any classes on "reading" or "teaching reading" so I'm going about my own wandering way trying to figure out some questions:
1. what is reading?
2. what is meaning?
3. How does meaning matter? How do we "make it" matter?
4. Do we?
5. What is gained through reading?
6. What if you can't make meaning? Can it be taught? How?
7. How do we make meaning our own?
8. What kind of reading is necessary and/or desirable?--can we skim, when can we skim? deep? hyper? when?
9. I believe that reading changes our lives in every way because it opens for us vistas we could not access, but is that true? Are these vistas available in other venues? Which ones aren't? How?
10. Can simply the process of making meaning be worth the reading in and of itself, regardless of topic?
11. What is it you are teaching when you are teaching "reading"?