Being Literate

Imagine yourself sitting at a large brown old wood grain desk with no drawers and a old wooden brown chair in a sizable room. As I glance upon the three rows of empty small chairs upon me , suddenly I hear the clock on the wall tick tock. Suddenly the hour hand hits eight ‘o'clock “DING, DING, DING, DING.” One by one they come in with booming voices and filling each seat . Finally everyone has come to a complete silence and Sally raises her and I said “Yes, Sally in a silvery voice.” “What will be our assignment for today”, Sally verbally expressed softly . You will be researching sundry ways to become more literate. “Dr. Richardson how did you become so literate?,” Sally verbalized soflty. Being literate is being able to have to the ability to read and write. Reading and writing enhances abundance of skills in my perspective. As a child I wanted to broaden my lexicon in the sixth grade so I decided that I wanted to read more to expand my lexicon and articulate my words in a sentence more efficiently.

In class in the sixth grade my teacher asked everyone in the class raise your hand if you relish to read so only five of my classmates raised their hand out of twenty other students. My teacher Mrs.Mcmillan asked another question raise if you read a pages in a novel at least four times a week and only one person raised their hand and that was myself. I was the most keenly intellectual person in my sixth grade class with a higher IQ than everyone else. I use to read the dictionary and bible because I always wanted to be more sapient than everyone else in my class. Being literate actually means just being able to read and