If you read something aloud (eg. a story for children, a poem, etc.) the punctuation marks of sentences indicate Lesepausen as locations to pause shortly from reading to make the structure of the sentence obvious to the listener.

This helps to recognize insertions, side-notes, etc.

I guess, that all other answers are correct as well (essentially "a break from or from reading") and it depends on the context.

If you read something aloud (eg. a story for children, a poem, etc.) the punctuation marks of sentences indicate Lesepausen as locations to pause shortly from reading to make the structure of the sentence obvious to the listener.

This helps to recognize insertions, side-notes, etc.

I guess, that all other answers are correct as well (essentially "a break from or for reading") and it depends on the context.