For as long as I can remember, I always loved to read. It is hard for find me without a book, even as a child. I recently displayed an interest in writing, however. I am particularly a quiet person. I would rather listen than speak most times. As a result, I often keep my thoughts to myself. Writing is my way of freeing those thoughts from my brain. Furthermore, reading and writing is one of the simplest pleasures in my life. Additionally, I don’t remember the exact time I learned how to read but I do remember that it was before kindergarten. My mother is an avid reader. She loves to read anything she can get her hands on, especially romance novels. I like to think I get my love for reading from her. I remember every week my mother and I would go to the public library in Collins and pick out a book to read together. The book I remember the most is Green Eggs and Ham from Dr. Seuss. We would sit on her bed and read the book together. I remember that book as the first …show more content…
My classes don’t usually assign books to read or even chapters in our book to read. They are more focused on giving us notes to study, building our vocabulary or improving our ACT scores. School hasn’t played a big part in my reading experiences as much as my writing. The teachers were more focused on making sure we could write and comprehend rather than us reading books. My family is the other way around. They don’t mind reading but they do not usually write for pleasure. They write for work, school, or not at all. It is not something that is encouraged so when I get a writing assignment at school, I never complain. It did not matter if it was three different essays on human cloning, a journal, or MLA format essays. I loved to write. Especially if it was about my own opinions. Writing and reading is something I’d never get tired of. Even when I am 32 and hopefully working at a nice school as a teacher I will love to write and to
My parents have always stressed the importance of reading. Throughout my whole life, they have motivated me to read and they have encouraged me to find books that I find interesting to read. Because of their encouragement, I am an avid reader today. When I was a child, just starting to enjoy reading I liked to read books that were fiction. Some of my favorite books to read as a child are series that I still love today and I think I still have every book in each series stored in my attic. They are The Boxcar Children, Junie B. Jones, and The Magic Tree House.
Literature has long been an important part of human life. We express our feelings with ink and paper; we spill out our souls on dried wood pulp. Writing has been a form of release and enjoyment since the beginning of written language. You can tell a story, make yourself a hero. You can live out all your fantasies!
I consider myself a very dedicated person, because even though I didn’t like writing, I did well at it by fighting against whatever was stopping me from liking it. As time passed I conceived that reading and writing is a combination of important tools that are essential for life, something that everyone needs to be successful. Once I realized how important reading and writing was, I started to feel a passion for writing poems, songs and stories.
People write for many reasons. They write to educate, , and to entertain to express
As a child, I have always been fond of reading books. My mother would read to me every single night before I went to bed and sometimes throughout the day. It was the most exciting time of the day when she would open the cabinet, with what seemed to be hundreds of feet tall, of endless books to choose from. When she read to me, I wanted nothing more than to read just like her. Together, we worked on reading every chance we had. Eventually I got better at reading alone and could not put a book down. Instead of playing outside with my brothers during the Summer, I would stay inside in complete silence and just read. I remember going to the library with my mom on Saturdays, and staying the entire day. I looked forward to it each and every week.
For the first six years of my life, I was a boy who savored going to school and seeing all of my friends. Then one day in first grade, during English class, that all changed thanks to a time were we had to read out loud. This day scared me for a while, and caused a fear in me that I wouldn’t let go of for about another eight years. Let me tell you first off, I was not at all the same person in first grade as I am today. For one thing, I was totally inconsiderate to any understanding of the reading system. I am writing about this event for the sole reason that it has changed the way I have live my life up to these recent years. Now that all of that is out of the way, I will continue with a story about a boy who overcame a reading and writing disability and turned it into motivation.
We focused or reading and writing in my house because my mom always thought it was most important in education. My family has influenced me to want to perfect my writing as well as my reading skills. The first book series I have read was the Flowers In The Attic series; it was given to me by my mom and it made me look forward to reading more. They have opened my mind and opened opportunities for me; I have been more interested in reading, and reading has helped me extend my vocabulary, which has influenced me as a writer.
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” by Dr. Seuss. Everyone at some point in their lives will read or be read to. For me it’s a great way to escape, to clear my head, and be at two places at once. For me, reading has had its ups and downs, but, through the years I’ve had obstacles which have molded me into the person I am today.
Reading and writing has always played a vital part in my life. From toddler to adult, pre-elementary to college, I’ve managed to sharpen both skills to my liking. However, even though it significantly helped, schooling was not what influenced me to continue developing those skills into talent. Many different things shaped and influenced my learning, and now reading and writing have become the safety net of my life. I know that even if I have nothing else in the future, I’ll still have my talent and knowledge. To ensure my success, I hope to further develop those skills so that I may fulfill my wishes.
I never wanted to let Jo and her sisters go. Fortunately, by age ten, I had discovered Nancy Drew mysteries and the Bobbsey Twins adventure books that helped wean me from Louisa Alcott. However, I never recovered from my fascination with the American Civil War period and that was rekindled when at age twelve, I discovered my grandmother's copy of Gone With the
You could almost say that it is in my blood to read. (My parents have never been big into reading, but it seemed like my grandparents continuously had some type of book in their hands.) Although I appreciate literature I often find that I no longer have time to read for pleasure anymore. Work, school, and general life has encompassed my time so much that I feel as if I will miss deadlines if I stop for a moment just to read. Reading has become something that I do only if it is required. I long for the chance to really read again just to be able to get away and become a part of that
Besides this immersion into a world of books, I credit my love of reading to the fact that my parents only let me watch an hour of TV a day. I learned to use my mind and imagination to entertain myself. It's not really surprising that literature became my vocation. When not reading or writing, I enjoy watching films, baking, going to the city to eat Thai and Ethiopian food, walking, and relaxing with my friends.
There are many different types of events that shape who we are as writers and how we view literacy. Reading and writing is viewed as a chore among a number of people because of bad experiences they had when they were first starting to read and write. In my experience reading and writing has always been something to rejoice, not renounce, and that is because I have had positive memories about them.
Reading and books became a real struggle for me from elementary all the way to high school because I found it hard to comprehend the books that I was made to read. These books were not interesting to me and I found myself starring at pages for hours at a time and would not know or understand what I read.
I would not call myself a reader. I like to read. I wouldn’t say I love to read. I don’t feel like I have time at this point in my life to read. I am going to school, married, have 4 kids, and working full time.