Reflective Essay About Literacy

It was not until I found My Spark Like most people, my literacy skills began to develop when I was a young child. My first memories of learning literacy skills started with the typical bedtime stories by my parents. The growth continued to expand even more when I got to school and teachers molded my style and shape literacy skills of reading and writing. I believe that the reason I developed my literacy skills was that of need and not of want. Anyone who wants to be successful needs to know how to write and read. I became aware of this at a very early age, but my procrastination and my drive were lacking. I learned that it was necessitated write, even when it felt like a punishment. I passed my classes and graduated high school. It was evident that I am compelled

Now that I reflect upon the stories there was always a moral to the story, whether it was honesty, responsibility, or loyalty. There was always a teaching moment to take from the stories which in turn has affected the person that I have become. As I got older, the book 's got larger, and the words got more complex. From the first day of kindergarten to the last day of high school and all the days in between; now into college, there has not been one day that I have not had no choice to read something. Whether it was in elementary school, we read “Charlotte 's Web,” In middle school, we read “Number the Stars,” and we read in high school “Catcher in the Rye”; literature has always been present in my school life. Between all the analyzing of Shakespearean literature and the book reports; there is no doubt that my literature knowledge progressed thanks to school significantly. However, the development of learning to be literate did not start off as easy or as proficient as the other kids. In third grade, when my teacher realized I was not catching on to the material as fast as the rest of the