Reading Autobiography

Reading in the classroom was a breeze for me because my amazing parents read so much
to me when I was a young child. Learning to read when I started kindergarten was not as hard for
me as it was for other children. I had an advantage over the other children because my Dad read
so much to me and my brother when we were young. I will always thank him for that because I
was able to learn at a more advanced level.
When my dad would read to me when I was a young child he would make the story come
to life. He would always make the characters come to life by putting so much enthusiasm to the
story. He made reading fun. My favorite book he read to me was Chewy Louie because he
would act just like the characters do in the book and it would make the

story line even funnier.
When it came time to go to school I was not very worried because I had already learned to read.
We would all sit at our half circle table with the teacher in the middle and would read out of this
big red story book. The letters and words had symbols over them so we knew how to pronounce
them. Our kindergarten classroom always smelt like stinky feet and sweaty little children. Our
classroom was very colorful, it had all our artwork and projects hanging on the wall.
My teacher's name was Ms. Sanchez, she was the funniest lady ever! She always made
reading fun because she would make us read with enthusiasm and that would make the story
come alive. She always let us go to the library and pick out whatever book we wanted. We also had this AR system and whenever you finished reading a book you would take an online test on
it and you would earn points. At the end of the year you could use all your accumulated points to
buy cool prizes. That’s probably why a lot of children read, to earn points to get prizes.
Sometimes the older kids would come read to us on Fridays. That was always a treat for us
because we would look up to the older kids and someday read to younger kids just like they did.
When I finally got to sixth grade I was able to read to the younger kids and it was the best. I
knew they looked up to me because that is how I used to be. They were so cute and were so
interested in the story.
As I grew older reading became even more fun because I got to read chapter books and
they were worth even more AR points. I read every single Junie B. Jones chapter books when I
was in second and third grade.

I also read The Series of Unfortunate Events and they were my
favorite. When I got to sixth grade I had the most AR points in the whole school and I got a huge
prize at the end of the year.
Since my dad read so much to me growing up I was always placed in the advanced
reading classes because reading came so much easier to me. At first I was scared to be in those
classes because they always had older students and I was always the youngest, but after it turned
out to be a lot of fun. I got to read so many interesting stories and made so many new friends.
Being placed in the advanced classes when I was younger made English so much easier for me
when I was older.
When my younger brother and sister were born I would read to them just like my dad
would read to me. It helped them tremendously because now they are placed in the advanced reading classes. We all love reading because my dad taught us so well. We gained so much
knowledge because he read to us.
I have gained so much knowledge and information from reading. It has opened up so
many doors for me. I am in all the advanced classes and I am a good student because I started
reading very young and it helped me tremendously. I know now that if I ever decide to

have
children that I will read to them before they start school just like my dad did for me because it
helped me so much. It made learning to read in school easier and made me have interest in
reading. It had me placed in advanced classes and helped me tremendously in the long run.