How To Read My First Chapter Book

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When I was young I remember watching my mother read unceasingly in bed, her eyes quickly moving back and forth across the pages. I can recall opening the drawer in the nightstand next to her bed and staring with satisfaction at the books she had to read. Holding my mother’s massive books in my hands, I felt gratified as I loved their thickness and sheer mass. However, when I attempted to read a book of my own I could not overcome the first chapter without quitting from boredom. For years I could not comprehend the mechanics of reading, and I had given up on the concept, but one year something clicked and I have not stopped reading since. Although, I learned to love reading late in my life, it has rewarded me with an expanded imagination.

As a young child my mother often read to me in bed involving colorful children’s stories with dinosaurs or animals. Transitioning from kindergarten to first grade, our class began to read from textbooks, subsequently, I couldn't follow the reader and it was challenging to retain information regarding the book. …show more content…

Deciding it was time to attempt a chapter book, I searched the classroom library for appealing books. I found a book with a magnificent Pegasus on the cover and could not look away from the glory of the illustration. Furthermore, my mother encouraged me to read this book, “That’s great Talia! You can do a book report on it when you finish”, she had said. However, when I began to read I would read a sentence, read it again three additional times, and would force myself to move on without comprehending the story. Ultimately, I ended up skimming the entire book just view the last page and I could proclaim I had read a chapter book on my own. Therefore, the first chapter book I attempted to read, and was for convinced I would complete, took me the entire school year to

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