Story of Literacy Paper
When I first learned to ride a bike, I teetered back and forth from one training wheel to the other, imagining the day when the wheels would be left behind. When that time came, I struggled but refused to go to bed until I had successfully ridden without support. My experience with literature is kind of like my experience with learning to ride a bike.
As a child, I remember thinking that there were two types of readers. There were the people who constantly carried around a book, reading in their free time and speeding through novels at ridiculous rates. Then, there where the people who struggled with reading. Stumbling over words, phrases and whole paragraphs like they were bits of uneven concrete meant to send a new
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These old cassette tapes served as a pathway to a world of magic. It is the feeling of being transported to an entirely different universe that I found so enticing. Listening, both at home and on road trips, to these fantastic stories of mystical realms is what got me through elementary and middle school.
Never the less, throughout middle school, I was still stuck in the same group as in elementary school. I longed to be with the bright kids; the kids who excelled in language arts. All through middle school I continued to work, study and write. Slowly but surely, my writing got a little better and I could read a slight bit faster. I still wasn’t happy though. At some point, however, I decided since no one was moving me to the classes where intelligence overflowed, I decided that I would move myself. By the time I got to high school, I had learned several tricks to help me be more successful. Writing, I had decided would likely always be hard and the editing process would be long, but doable. Reading, I had decided would also be a long process, but again a doable one. I’d taken those inferior wheels off and managed to stay upright. The classes where hard and the work was time intensive, but I managed to live through each and every one; learning and growing as I