How I Learned To Read Analysis

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I learned to read by lots of influence from my mother. She has always been a reader and as a little girl I wanted to be just like her. She would be on the couch or in her bed with a book in her hand. I would then go grab a book from my room and lay down with her and pretend to read until she would finish her own chapter and read to me. I have very fond memories of her always reading to my brother and I. My mother made it a priority for us to be good readers. She would go over sight words with us every day and we never went to bed without a goodnight story. She would have designated quiet time for us and we would have to find a spot and sit there for an hour and either read, write or draw. As a young child, I had a lot of anxiety. I went to a therapist who showed me many different techniques to try to relax and clear my mind, but none of them seemed to work. Using our scheduled …show more content…

Personally, I relate to the stories of the children who were encouraged to read. Olga Nelson remembers that, “her family was a reading family” (Brandt 24), which is exactly what my family also was. Having parents who encouraged me to love to read plays a big part in how I view reading and why it is such a big part in my life. My mother relates to Hope Moore when she says that “she encouraged her daughter to read because it kept her busy, but she never would have thought to said “Go write something in your novel” for the purpose of learning.” My mother did learn to read at home, but it wasn’t because her parents valued it. It was viewed as something they had to do rather then something that could be pleasurable priority. She didn’t have the type of resources I did to further her love of reading as a child. In my own house, I had all types of books everywhere, that I could read at any time. In my grandparent’s home, they have books, but most of them are old books that belong to my grandfather that are not supposed be

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