My significant influence is my fourth-grade teacher. When I was little, my teachers could say that I was a little behind on my reading level. The problem wasn 't that I did not know how to read, it was understanding everything that I just had read. In fourth grade, I had to read a book and answer questions on that same book for a grade. I struggled on every single book and test. Mrs. Spooner, my fourth grade teacher, took me aside and ask me about if I actually was reading the books or not. As we both discussed, she knew I could read, but did not know I was not understanding the material. We decided to tutor every Monday after school.
I would read a book paragraph by paragraph, and once I was done reading one paragraph out loud, I would have