Importance Of Literacy In My Life

Literacy has always played a big part in my life. My mom is an ESOL teacher, so she as amazing when it came to teaching me. She taught me the alphabet and during my whole lifetime, she has helped me with my grammar. As a child, I used to watch a Sesame Street and use a program called “Baily’s Book House.” Sesame Street and Baily’s Book house both helped me learn the alphabet and other vocabulary words. When I was two, I started preschool at my synagogue. In preschool, I continued to learn the alphabet and I learned to recognize my name. Reading has always been a big part in my life. When my mom was pregnant with me she used to read to my older brother, so in a way she was reading to me too. When I was a toddler, my favorite books were

In my freshman and sophomore year of high school I had the same English teacher. Her name was Ms. Watkins and she was a graduate from Longwood. She made reading hard more interesting. Dante’s Inferno, and then she had us build a level of his version of hell out of food. After everyone shared what they had created we got to eat it. We read Jane Austin’s, Pride and Prejudice. Shortly after we finished reading it the book called

Children’s literature was by far my favorite. Each week we had to read a new book and answer questions about it through a quiz. Then my teacher had us sign up to volunteer for the Virginia Children’s Book Festival. I really enjoyed going to different lectures where authors would talk about their books. It was really inspiring to meet the authors and hear their thought process. That same semester, I took a grammar class. We didn’t do that much reading and the teacher was disorganized. Her quizzes and tests had a lot of typo’s and we never used our textbooks. Right now, I am taking English 400 and my teacher has made me appreciate writing more. She realizes that we all have a lot of hard classes so before we start a writing assignment she has us talk and discuss what we will be writing about, she has us do fun activities around campus to help us stay engaged in the class.
Reading and writing have made a huge difference in my life. Throughout my reading and writing career, I have had my ups and downs on how I feel about it. In elementary school I was more positive about both of them because I knew I was learning and I was really eager to learn. In high school, I had years when I loved reading and writing and years where I didn’t like it. During my college experience, I have had a mostly positive feeling about reading and