Reading Memoir Have you ever read a book so good, that on every page it had something that catches your attention so much that you couldn’t wait to turn the page for something new ? This quote, “The journey of a lifetime starts with the turning of a page” is the meaning of that question to me. Reading is like the trigger in your brain. Through the course of my readings helped me develop in many ways, from the early readings in childhood to my current readings in class. During these different stages of my life, I learned how to comprehend more and gained a better vocabulary. As child reading was like having candy before bed. My mother used to always read to me bible scriptures, lullabies, and my favorite, Junie B Jones books. Reading became …show more content…
natural to me, starting with the rhymes we used to say during double dutching. For example, one rhyme went like this: “Teddy bear , teddy bear turn around. Teddy bear, teddy bear, touch the ground. Teddy bear teddy bear, tie you shoes. Teddy bear, teddy bear I love you.” This was an entertaining way of reading, who thought physically reading, which worked best for me. Once in school, seeing the size of a chapter book in about the third grade, I was intimidated, until I actually opened the book. I know we all heard the saying,“Never judge a book by the cover.” Well, in this case, it’s actually the pages not the cover. My first chapter book was, Casey at the Bat by Leroy Neiman. The book was a classic tale of baseball hopes and dreams coming to life like never before with LeRoy Neiman's rich, and great detailed charcoal drawings. In middle school and high school, I became more attentive and comprehensive to what I read in class. During this time I had learned that I was more of a listener because it helps me picture was going on it the stories. Now, reading is like having nothing to do on the weekends.
I wouldn’t say I don't enjoy reading; it's just that I prefer fiction books they are not real but I can relate to, such as To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. A compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving novel. Reading this novel was like reading apart of my life even though it's fiction, I could relate to thing that happen in this story. I desire reading in class because getting an insight on the different interpretations, is fascinating. Reading now keeps our brain active, pumped up, and flowing. There's greater volume to reading than just reading a sentence; there can be a message within the sentence. For example, reading quotes such as “You are braver than you believe, smarter than you seem, and stronger than you think” in Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne. Many people can have different opinion on what this quote means. To me this quote has a significa, that at times people like themselves down but in all actuality they are better than what they think. In conclusion, from the fun days of reading to the current informational readings in class, reading will always be all around us. It is apart of my everyday life. If had to choose, reading as a child is a comfortable memory. Although reading now is not all that exciting, doesn't mean I can’t get anything out of it. Reading is the plug to get your brain going. This semester I want to read Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Hopefully, this novel will interest me
in many ways. Reading is something you to do by practicing. The more you the better you become at it.
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.
Each year as I grow old, I tend to discover and learn new things about myself as a person as well as a reader, writer and a student as a whole. My educational journey so far has been pretty interesting and full of surprises. Back in Bangladesh where I studied until high school, my interest for learning, reading or writing was so very different compared to how it has become over the years. I could relate those learning days to Richard Rodriquez’s essay “The lonely Good Company of Books”. In the essay the author says, “Friends? Reading was, at best, only a chore.”(Rodriguez, page 294). During those days I sure did feel like reading was a chore for me and how I was unable to focus and I could never understand what all those jumbled up words ever meant. It was quite a struggle for me in class when the teachers used to assign us reading homework. I felt like reading a book was more difficult or painful than trying to move a mountain. Just like how moving a mountain is impossible, trying to find an interest in reading was
“One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.” These were the words from one of the greatest authors of all time, Dr. Seuss, that sprouted the enjoyment of reading. I was a young lad when I first started looking at words, and although I could not understand them, I knew they had some significant meaning to them. Reading played a huge role in my life, and it all started when my mom read books to me as a baby, when I first read a book for myself, and, of course, when I was required to read at school.
Reading is not something I look forward to, I do not like reading much,when I heard we had to read a book , I wanted to read a book that appealed to me.My main subject in school is history. I have always been amused by history, that includes, World history and U.S history, but I focus more on World History. One event in History that interests me and I find important is The Holocaust. I find the event as a big catastrophe that means a lot and teached us a lot.
The first beloved books in my life were the Sesame Street Encyclopedia volumes. At three, I wasn't old enough to read them, but I always wanted to have them read to me. In fact, I memorized the ten volume set so when my parents would skip some pages I would ask them to read what they skipped. After learning to read on my own, my favorite book became the anatomy volume in the Charlie Brown Encyclopedia. Courtesy of a supermarket book offer, I was the only kindergartner who knew about fertilized egg cells. As I grew older, I continued to read largely because reading taught me so much outside of what we learned in school.
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.
As this journey continues in my life, I am happy that I’m almost to the end of my journey. But learning is like and endless line, one can never get too much of it. For what we have knowledge of are pinch of glass of water from the ocean of education. Looking forward on becoming more literate for it will guarantee me respect, credibility and high economic status from society. My early journey of literacy has allowed me to be reach a level my parents and I can be proud of. Now my curiosity not only partakes in literacy but also to a successful future.
I read because it brings me pleasure and because I never want to stop learning. Recently I have been reading a lot of multicultural women's literature and Victorian medical textbooks.
I also remember as young girl learning how to read and my favorite book that I could quote word for word was “Green Eggs and Ham” by Dr.Suess. I loved that book so much I still have that today. As I got older my love for reading and books started to diminish, I went to a private school for my elementary years and their curriculum was very intense. It was required to read a book from their approved list and complete a book report each summer before the school year began. Not to mention the numerous books reports I would have to complete during the school. At an early age books and reading was something I had to do and not what I wanted to do.
Staring at the front cover, I stick my tongue out and furrow my brow at the thought of reading a book in its entirety. This is how my mind worked as a small child. Reading was not my idea of fun nor was I even comprehending what I was looking at. My parents weren’t the best students, so I always felt like it was pointless to ask for help at home. However, I did learn to read and comprehend books after I had help from an inspirational teacher. She took extra time out of her evenings to teach a child that there is more than just the alphabet arranged across pages. In “How I Learned to Read and Write” by Frederick Douglass and “The Lonely, Good Company of Books” by Richard Rodriguez, they tell us their own stories about books and reading. Douglass
Ever since I was a child, I've never liked reading. Every time I was told to read, I would just sleep or do something else instead. In "A Love Affair with Books" by Bernadete Piassa tells a story about her passion for reading books. Piassa demonstrates how reading books has influenced her life. Reading her story has given me a different perspective on books. It has showed me that not only are they words written on paper, they are also feelings and expressions.
From this could flow growth in all the kinds of resources needed for transactions with increasingly demanding and increasingly rewarding texts. And from this would flow, also, a humanistic concern for the relation of the individual literary event to the continuing life of the reader in all its facets—aesthetic, moral, economic, or social. (1978, p. 161) Learning is a constructive and dynamic process in which students extract meaning from texts through experiencing, hypothesizing, exploring, and synthesizing. Rosenblatt
My parents instilled a passion for reading in me even as a toddler; years later, an excellent,
Reading has been a part of my life from the second I was born. All throughout my childhood, my parents read to me, and I loved it. I grew up going to the library and being read to constantly. Especially in the years before Kindergarten, reading was my favorite thing to do. I grew up loving fairy tales and thriving on the knowledge that I could have any book I wanted, to be read to me that night. Having no siblings, my only examples were my parents, and they read constantly. Without a family that supported my love of reading throughout my childhood, I wouldn’t appreciate it nearly as much as I have and do now.
Reading – we do it every day. In almost every aspect of our lives and often take it for granted. Reading is essential for human communication and increasing knowledge. However, because reading is so important even a small change can have a significantly large impact on our modern society. We are currently in a midst of a cultural revolution. In which the printed word is being transformed by the digital.