Reading and Writing are important skills to learn in life. Reading takes one into a world of imagination and writing enables the author to express his or her views to the whole world. Everyone has their own unique journey for learning reading and writing. I started this journey in preschool while I lived in India.
In the preschool, I learned the alphabet and how to write different letters by tracing over them. Soon, I was able to write my own name. But that was all I learned in preschool. On the first day of kindergarten, the teacher handed me a laminated sheet of paper. It had words on it, most of them, I couldn’t read. Later, I learned that these words were called sight words. Every day, the teacher would read the words out loud and we would repeat them in order commit them to memory. After repeating it so many times, I could recognize these words in many places. Many times the sentences in a
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Our teacher gave us these workbooks which was filled with letters and words to trace. My handwriting was very shaky, so my mother would help me many times. In the evenings, my mother and I used to practice writing the alphabet and words in empty notebooks. Sometimes, she would guide my hand as a I wrote and also would encourage me to try to write things on papers during my free time. Over the year, my handwriting improved, but it was pretty messy. My work always looked like it was done by chickens. I practiced in school and home and improved my handwriting so that it was pretty legible. From kindergarten to 3rd grade, I improved my writing by a lot.
Though, I didn’t learn to read and write in the adventurous way as Fredrick Douglass did, but for to me it was an important learning process. Reading and writing are basic skills that one must have in order to be successful. Just as Fredrick Douglass said that it opens your eyes to the truth of this world and that is both a blessing and a curse, I see it the same