My Literacy Journey

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People develop from situations and events that alter a person's life for the better, or for the worst. Reading, can only make you a more educated person on what is happening around you, and around the world. Each individual has their own literacy journey that is unique to themselves. No one can have the same literacy journey as someone else, literacy journals are like fingerprints, no matter how close an individual will be with one another, they will have different fingerprints. I believe, that the introduction to reading at an early age, alters and makes a person who they are later in life. Reading makes people better, readers, thinkers, and writers and without being introduced to reading at an early age in my life, I would not be the same …show more content…

The very first book that started my literacy journey was the book _____________ by ___________ this was a picture book where the reader had to match words with the corresponding pictures. When I was three years old I would go out of my way to find this book and beg my mom to read it to me before I went to bed. This was my favourite book as a child and eventually I was able to point at the right pictures without even seeing the actual picture, but by just reading the word. My mom would cover up the pictures and say “Dimitri where is the tomato” and I would then point at the word tomato. This early passion of reading benefited me, and intellectually pushed me ahead of most kids my age. At the age of three I was able to read the television guide to communicate to my parents on what show I wanted to watch. They did not believe I was capable of this at first, but I continued to this and they were in awe. In junior kindergarten my teacher was pleasantly surprised on how well I could read, and how much I enjoyed reading and explained to my parents how I was reading at a grade 2 level at the age of 4. This early involvement in my literature journey and this early introduction to reading made me enjoy reading, and enjoy learning, which continued on into my early elementary school

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