Personal Narrative: My Journey With Reading

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My journey with reading Reading is an adventure just waiting to happen. Reading can be great if the reader enjoys the book they are reading. My experience with reading has been a rollercoaster because my early memories with reading were great, my reading experiences in middle school where not so great, how my reading has changed since I started high school. I enjoy reading when I understand what the book is talking about.
Firstly, When I was younger I was good at reading I struggled a little but I got better. When i was younger me and my mom would always read a dr. Seuss, bear in the big blue house ,or clifford the big red dog book before bed. As I moved up in my education I started to struggle more and more with reading. It became very hard for me to understand what books were saying.
Next, My reading experiences in middle school where not so good. In middle school reading was worse for me. I could never understand the topic or points of a book it was always so confusing. As middle school went on I began to hate to read because I was terrible at it. Especially if I had to read out loud in class I would get so embarrassed mostly when I had to ask what a word was. Most of my friends loved to read and at that point I wanted to fit in so I would try and read the books they did. I could never understand the book and it would …show more content…

In eighth grade I never went to the library, because I thought if i was bad at reading now I should stop trying because I will never get better. Then this year in English we had to go pick out a book to read honestly I was not happy about it because in did not like to read. But then I found a book called The Bar code tattoo. I really liked that book a lot and when I finished that book I wanted to read another book. That is the first book I actually enjoyed reading. Since then I have read many more amazing books that I have enjoyed to but that one book is probably my

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