Personal Narrative: Reading In Fifth Middle School

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“Don’t forget after school you have a reading lesson,” my mom said to me every tuesday. Usually I would be fine with having private lessons but not twice a day. I had one in the morning everyday then on tuesdays in the morning and afternoon. In 4th grade, my teacher noticed that I was behind with my reading and put me into a special reading group. Then after months with very little progress I ended up having another reading lesson after school. This caused me to hate reading even more than I already had. My teachers were mean and always forced me to read books that never interested me. When I would read books that I picked, I would actually read and had signs of improvement. Once fourth grade ended so did all of the extra reading help. In fifth …show more content…

I constantly had a book in my hands and was always in the library looking for a new book to take a journey with. A memory that will always be stuck in my brain is in seventh grade I read over ten books in a month. I believe my excitement towards reading came from my reading teachers because they were actually nice and let us pick the books we wanted to read. In one year I went from the reading level ‘P’ to level ‘R’ on the verge of level ‘T’. Reading was now one of my favorite hobbies. I remember how in fifth grade my teacher won’t let me read the Twilight series, but once I hit middle school they were encouraging me to read it. I was encouraged to read more books that I wanted to that I was discouraged from in elementary …show more content…

It was hard to find time to read while doing homework, work, play sports, and have a social life. In english I was “forced” to read To Kill A Mockingbird, and by forced I mean I got told to read it at that certain time. I had already planned to read it because I had heard it was a classic and I had interest in it. Even though I still don’t have time to read I still like to read. I mainly read in the summer since I have more free time and I enjoy reading outside in the sun. It’s hard not having free time to read during the school year because I keep buying books that I want to read but haven’t had the chance to get to them yet, so I have a huge stack of books sitting in my room unread. My goal for the summer is to read them all and then buy more if possible. An accomplishment I made though was I read the Divergent series in three days. A little background to this is each book has over five hundred pages and there are three books in total. Then following that I read all of John Green’s

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