The way that I grew up affected a lot of my reading and writing skills. Growing up as a kid I learned to read. I read all the time besides playing video games of course. I believed I was an excellent writer when I was a lot younger. As a child, I grew up having a ton of imagination which I can put down on a piece of paper. I always received A’s in writing back in elementary school because I had such a creative mind. I felt very confident in my writing. I loved reading all of the Harry Potter series back when I was in middle school. Every time I read a book, it makes me feel smarter. It helps my mind to think and also helps my imagination to go off in wonder. By the time I went to 8th grade, that’s when my reading and writing skills went drastically down. Playing baseball, I stole from second base to third base. The ball was thrown but instead of the third baseman catching it, my face did instead. I was knocked out, unconscious. Had a huge concussion and fractured my cheek bone. What really affected me the most was my memory. Ever since then I have had short term memory lost. Now I was unable to have such a great imagination like I use to. Whenever I have read, I wouldn’t be able to comprehend it. My grades for writing went down from an A’ to a D’. Sometimes even an …show more content…
At first I believe that I was an amazing writer as a kid, but when that one moment in baseball happened, it just changed my life forever. If I keep believing in myself and take all the help I can get in college, I believe I can graduate in no time. All the stories I read this year in college has made me believe I can write amazing papers too. I see the struggles people had in some of the stories and they all believed that they wouldn’t become good authors but they never gave up. Now they are amazing authors. I believe that if they can do it then I can do it
My first experience to literacy came as a young adult. I have always been reluctant with my education, because of the family problems I experienced growing up. The harsh treatment our family received growing up made it very difficult to study in school, my body was physically in class but my mind was not. The trials and tribulations I went through growing up as a kid continued throughout my teenage years. Dropping out of high school I believe brought upon literacy difficulty. At the age of twenty-three, I finally had enough of feeling undereducated. Living in my mother’s basement with no job and an 8th grade education, the walls started to close in on me as my frustration became greater by the minute.
It wasn’t until elementary school that I noticed I started to develop literacy skills. I was never big into reading. Writing has always been easier for me, but I would say the 2nd grade is when I realized how important being able to read and write was, to be successful in life. I really can’t remember a time that I have actually read a book from start to finish and I don’t have much literacy history, because I was the only child and I always found other ways to keep myself occupied. My parents both worked full time jobs and long hours so the subject was never pressed on me when I was at home. I was pretty responsible as a child. I would go to and from school on my bicycle, then after school, I would do my homework and my chores before I went outside to play. When I was in school, I always had a lot of friends, so reading and writing never really fit in to my schedule at all. I knew at an early age, that I didn’t really care about literacy.
I used to have to take these tests about all the books I would read in school and I would always ace them all. I knew that reading was something I liked because I was always very intrigued by it. Also in middle school I found my true writing voice. I remember taking a creative writing class in six grade and I was always the student who wrote more than what was expected for my writing assignments. I would write stories about things such as my friends and the experiences that I had in school. Sometimes I would even write my own plays and in my plays the characters would be people in family and people from school. I would always try to make the plot super interesting in my plays. One time I wrote a play about my brothers and me traveling to space and finding aliens. Overall, I really fell in love with literacy throughout my middle school years because I was able to read books more at an advance level and I also was able to write more intense stories. Literacy has been a positive influence in my life all throughout my school
We focused or reading and writing in my house because my mom always thought it was most important in education. My family has influenced me to want to perfect my writing as well as my reading skills. The first book series I have read was the Flowers In The Attic series; it was given to me by my mom and it made me look forward to reading more. They have opened my mind and opened opportunities for me; I have been more interested in reading, and reading has helped me extend my vocabulary, which has influenced me as a writer.
...from high school with high hopes that college would add the finishing touches to my writing skills – I knew I still had flaws in my style, and I didn’t know how to fix them. And now here I am, aiming to become a successful novelist or screenwriter of some sort (as long as it allows my imagination to run wild).
My literacy skills began to develop much like Deborah Brandt suggests in her article of “Sponsors of literacy” My first memories of learning to write are still quite vivid. I remember holding a big fat crayon in my hand as my mother showed me how to write my name. She would draw a large line on the page and I would copy her movements. We started with capital letters and moved on to lower case letters. My memories of learning to read are similar. I remember my mother reading me picture books with large print that somehow turned in to reading sentences. Most of my early memories of learning to read and write include sitting with my mother, older sister and brothers. I had never really thought about the influence your family has on your reading
My journey with literacy has been a up and down process. Early on in my life literacy was just a tool used to go from day to day and make it threw my school work. I never saw myself as being one of those kids that could read for hours or write stunning essays. The building blocks of literacy were taught to me at my preschool, where they began to teach us the alphabet and taught us how to read basic books. We also began to learn how to write.
Being able to read and write is something that you can obtain and that others are not able to take it away from you. In the essay “ Superman and Me” Sherman Alexie wrote a story about an Indian boy who loves to read. He read so many books that had given him the knowledge that an average age kid would have never understand. Even though growing up in a surrounding where he was always being looked down upon reading books because of his culture. He manage to teach himself to read at an early age and to prove to those that he was smart in which he had the ability to read and write. He would read anything that appears in front of him such as newspaper, cereal box, bulletins posted on the walls of schools, clinic, and post offices. I never knew that reading anything besides novels can help improve your reading skills. I thought that reading books and novels are the only way to improve your reading comprehension. Towards the end he became a writer who wrote novels, short stories, and poems that were enjoyed by
I believe that now, my writing is at a college level, thanks to my teachers and
My Literacy Experience Everyone’s first experience with literature goes all the way back to elementary school. In order to do anything successfully, a person must first master the basics. Reading and writing require that you first learn the alphabet, how to pronounce letters, and how to put those letters together to form words. As a child I struggled with these basics, and so that discouraged me to the point of where I did not even want to try. If it was not for my grandmother, parents, and the realization that not being able to read will lead to failure, I would not enjoy literature as much as I do today.
Reading literature helps children learn new words and expand on their vocabulary. Those who read more, often times have a larger and more impressive bank of vocabulary. Children who read more literature are able to comprehend and formulate their ideas more coherently than those that do not. As children continuing expanding their vocabulary, they seem “smarter” than other children because of their strong control of language. Due to the fact that children are building a better structure for their language, they show their strengths when writing and taking standardized tests for comprehension.
Throughout my life, reading and writing were a positive thing because of the support from the people around. I was never really the confident or extroverted type of person back in the day. This then caused me to be anxious when I read or be doubtful of what I wrote. I can still remember breaking balls of sweats and tensing up whenever I had to read something aloud in elementary. It was a pretty big social problem for me but I can also recall many times where I was laughing and having fun while doing something with reading or writing with my mother. Although there have been many things that affected me so far in my literary journey, my mother has been the most supportive and impactful person to me by reading short stories, going to the library, and giving me writing prompts. One of the activities I liked to do before I fell asleep was to read.
Reading was never something I fussed about growing up. As a child, I loved genres of realistic fiction. I was hooked on The New Adventures of Mary Kate and Ashley, Goosebumps, The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes, Judy Moody, and especially, Zoobooks and Highlights magazines. My mother was always ready to help build my reading and writing skills. She took me to the library constantly to feed my passion for books and knowledge. I loved exploring the shelfs, organizing the books, and filling up my library cart. I tried keeping a diary in elementary school to keep track of my outings with my parents and grandparents to museums, zoos, movies, and libraries. This flash of writing enthusiasm was spun from books I read in the 4th and 5th grade that were
When I was little I loved Dexter’s laboratory and I swore I was going to be a scientist, I loved movies and swore I was going to be an actress, I played basketball and swore I’d be in the WNBA someday getting buckets and hearing wild fans cheer my name. I had a lot of goals when I was little but when I got to high school I realized what I wanted to do with my life. Reading was always a hobby of mine, but in high school I finally took up writing—poetry at first, as an outlet for my teen angst, and then I realized that through writing I could become anything I want. I could become a scientist, an actress, an athlete, anything I wanted to be— all I had to do was think of a story and then write it. I feel in love with the fact that I could create worlds and have adventures just by thinking it up and writing it down.
Reading and writing are not and were never very easy for me especially writing. As a young child it was very difficult for me, scenes both my parents only speak, write and read spanish. So I really never had anyone to help me and practice with me at home. I had to learn read, write and speak english basically on my own, but I got help from some teachers on the way.Throughout the years by having help by many teachers. I have learned so much and have bettered my writing and reading skills. I also have increased my vocabulary and learned to read and understand what I read.