Learning to read and write was not particularly hard, but it still took a long time before I was proficient doing it. To 6-year-old-me, reading and writing was just a thing grown-ups forced me to do to keep me away from my toys and the TV. I did not have any interest in doing it because it felt like a chore. Every second I spent practicing my reading was a second I spent away from my toys. Letters were not entertaining at all. My parents were constantly called to school to talk about my low grades and missing assignments. The material was not hard to understand, I simply preferred doing other things.
At some point after second grade, my parents enrolled me into a tutoring program to help Improve my reading and writing skills. The program ran
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Even children books just seemed like a boring attempt at forcing kids to start reading. Comic books felt different, their only purpose was to entertain me. If I did not understand a word I could just fall back to the images in the panel and I would still understand what was happening. The tutoring sessions soon became comic book reading time. My tutor was a fan of anything done by Marvel. He had a huge collection of comic books he was willing share with me if I asked. As he introduced me to content aimed at older audiences, content I was probably not supposed to read at the time, I realized that my reading comprehension was horrible. These comic books had more text and the art was sometimes more surreal so it was hard to understand. Soon after, I began practicing my reading with the sole purpose of understanding the full picture of the stories on each issue. I wrote down all the words I did not understand and looked them up. Then, I would read the comic all over again. I was amazed at how different the story felt when you could comprehend all the things the characters said. I was particularly interested in the sci-fi genre. Not because I liked stories set in futuristics societies, but because these stories often threw a bunch of scientific gibberish that that was interesting to research. I would sometimes pick up science books and read entire chapters just to be able to judge if a scientific concept used by an author made sense. I felt smart when they did not. After a while, my reading comprehension improved tremendously and so did my grades. I was still pretty lazy and preferred not doing my homework, but I could read an entire quarter worth of material just a few days before the exams so I was always at the top of my class. Those results really show how broken the school system was even back then. Improving my grades meant I no longer needed a tutor so
I would hide my frustration from my parents and they kept encouraging me to try but in some cases were trying hard to find the right process to help me read. My older brother would read The Little Golden Books to me and I would memorize the words on the page then recite them as if I was
When faced with the common misconception of comics and their actual values as described here, “Oh you are such a good reader, why waste your time on this junk?” (Gownley 21) Jimmy decided to tell his teacher why comics were real books. ”Comics have been used by our
People used to see comics as the funny “cheap” stories that doesn’t really has an idea worth reading. However, that is a stereotype. The world of comics is very wide and could be as interesting as any other valuable style of writing. However, People visualize
However, my school provided the resources for us to succeed. We had peer/professional tutoring, full
As a result, I would frequently receive poor grades, which caused me a lot of stress and anxiety. It was only when I started to plan my work and give it the time it
My grades dropped drastically because I didn't attend school a lot, because I had no way of getting there or sometimes I didn't wanna go,so I just didn't go. Later CPS got involved when she went to jail for a few days . My dad ended up getting full custody of us and that's when I started my freshmen year at Gila Ridge. I now go to school everyday and I still struggle a little bit but my grades have improved a lot. From this setback i've learned not to just settle for
After 7th grade though, I learned from my mistake, which was not knowing when or how to ask for help. When I entered 8th grade and then high school, I was committed to working with my teachers to ask them for assistance with subjects I struggled with. I polished my time management skills and studying
Andrew Greenough English 9 8/19/2016 Literacy Narrative Literacy and Identity I have gone through many changes with reading. When I was a small child at Kindercare my mom and dad enrolled me in a Hooked on phonics class along with my preschool class. Along with that both my parents always read to me. I loved books about monsters.
Literacy Autobiography My mother read to me as a child for fun and school. She read us books such as, Go Dog Go, You Read to Me, I’ll Read to you, and To Kill a Mockingbird. My father read books to my sister and I, such as Fairy Realm, Little House, and Percy Jackson, before bedtime. I now find reading very enjoyable, even though my dyslexia has made reading more difficult.
When my sister became too old to listen bedtime stories, she would read to me instead. Even though we watched our fair share of television, we were expected to spend just as much time, if not more, with reading. That wasn’t difficult, especially considering that we grew up while the Harry Potter books were starting to take the world by storm. Our mom supported our Potter mania and read the books alongside us, saying that the Harry Potter books shared a similar style to Charles Dickens, her favorite author- and now one of mine.
Throughout my life school always came easy to me. Once high school started that changed quickly. I never once studied for anything and here I am junior year doing homework and studying for at least 4 hours a day. It has paid off though because I've maintained all A's and B's with a weighted GPA of 95.9. It was a hard change and took a while to adapt to go from easy middle school classes to college courses freshman year.
During my elementary years, I don’t recall being interested in reading, but I do remember the first time I fell in love with it. I was in my 7th-grade reading class. I just completed a quiz when my teacher realized that I had nothing to do after. She offered me a book that I will remember for the rest of my life because it is the book that basically started my reading journey. It was called Tears of a Tiger by Sharon Draper, I loved the book so much that I read the whole entire series.
What does writing mean to me? Writing means getting people engaged in your piece. It means people wanting to keep reading what you wrote. The biggest thing about writing to me is expressing your thoughts and letting your mind go. Using good word choice and having a strong voice in the writing is something that makes it good.
But, there were also times where I chose not to go to tutoring because of how discouraged I felt which is my own fault because when I had the time I should have gotten help. Additionally, I lacked the want to study more because I’d end up frustrated and feeling even more stupid for not understanding
Remembering to this day the first extensive book I tried to read was, The Rainbow Fish. Climbing up in my father’s lap to read this story to him, I struggled with the words he began to help me sound them out each time. Consequently, as an elementary student, I excelled in reading. My 1st grade year I was reading at the level of a 3rd grader, with the help of my family. They always encouraged myself to continue in reading more books, I especially loved reading Disney