Growing up literacy has played an important role in my life. My love for literacy stems from my childhood. I remember walking up to my mother when I was a little girl, not even school age at the time and telling her, “I want to learn how to read.” She told me I would learn how to read, write and spell (the excitement I felt). My mother also gave me marble notebook with filled with my first name, last name, alphabets, sight words and sentences written with the dots to trace over (oh how I loved those dots!). She also used flash cards – alphabets, vowels, math and words. I watched Reading Rainbow and Sesame Street.

While in elementary school, I remember my 1st through 5th grade teachers giving spelling test. The class was given a set of words