My Favorite Reading Essay

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When I was in third grade, my teacher always required use to rent out a book every week. I never enjoyed reading because I always felt it was forced, so I would check out a book and never read it. Until one time my teacher asked why I haven 't been doing the A.R reading test and I told her I don 't enjoy reading. My teacher told me to take the whole week to find a book to read so I can take a test. Once I did that, my love for reading began and recently has been coming back after a lost of love for reading. My whole childhood I never enjoyed reading books, all i liked to do was watch tv, play games, go on computer, and play outside. I loved school but every friday my third grade teacher made the students rent out a book from the library. I would just grab any book when i walked in, rent the book and put it in my backpack then sit down and talk to my friends. The next time the book came out was when it was time to return it back to the library. My teacher pulled me aside and asked why I have not been doing the weekly reading A.R test, and I explained to her how I don 't like the books we read at school because they are boring. She told me how fun reading was and I just did not believe her, besides books that have cool pictures. She told me I can spend the week looking in the library for a book I will actually read so I can test on …show more content…

I would spend all my free time playing with friends online and watching youtube videos, making my reading go down to zero hours a week. My entire time during high school I never picked up a book for my own enjoyment. Recently I have got back into reading due to my history class I have been finding all the historical books very interesting. The only struggle is the habit I have of watching youtube videos, that is holding me back from reading like I use

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