Narrative Essay About Reading

As a child, reading played a big part in my life. I read at least once a day for many years of my life. I loved having my mom or dad read a book to me, but once my sister was able to read I always wanted her to read me a book. The times when I loved to read the most was in the summers. This was because my mom would always sign my sister and I up for the summer reading program. After you read for a certain amount time you were able to check off the little picture. After you checked off ten of the pictures you could bring it into the library and receive a prize. You also got to guess how many jelly beans were in the jar. If you guessed it correctly they gave you the entire jar. When I was that age, my dream was to win that bucket of jelly beans.

The next year was when we started a program called Accelerated Reading. In this program they had a list of books that were part of the program, and each of those books had a corresponding online test. At the beginning of the year we had a reading tested and then were given a reading level ranging from one through five that we had to follow. We had a metal cart in the back of our classroom that held a few of the AR books. This was when I started to not like reading books. It was very difficult to find a book that was part of the AR program, was in my AR level, and I was actually interested in the topic of the book. I had to read many books that I didn 't like, because I needed to have a certain amount of AR points by the end of the quarter. This carried on until I was in fifth grade. Once I got to fifth grade on the first day of school my teacher introduced the book Coraline to our class. It was her favorite book to read to fifth graders. Everyday she read a chapter to the class. I loved this time because I hadn 't had a teacher read out loud to the class since first grade. I remember the book being very interesting and a little weird. When it reached

In fact for my first Halloween I was the red Teletubby, Po. Once I started school my favorite show became Hi-5. It included five characters, Curtis, Kimee, Shaun, Carla, and Jenn. I always wanted to be Jenn. When I would watch the show I would always try and learn her parts; whether that was in a song or her part in the skit that they did at the end of every show. Every morning I would wake up early and go watch Hi-5 in my mom 's bed before I got ready for school. One year for Christmas I even received their DVD of a full season. Recently I went back and rewatched a part of this show and it made me feel like I was six years old again. Once I was in about second grade my sister and I started to watch Full House rerun episodes. My favorite part about this show was that it was on when my parents were in High School. It also was a show that no matter what my sister and I watched together. My sister and I have never really liked the same things but this show was an exception. We both really enjoyed the time that we would spend together twice a day to watch Full House. Around the same time, Hannah Montana started on Disney Channel. I loved the characters in this show, my favorites being Miley and her best friend Lily. It is weird to see Miley Cyrus now because she is a totally different person from when she was playing the part of Hannah. The best part about this was a few years after the producers decided to make Hannah