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“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. Back when I was an infant, my mom loved reading books to me. She read the wonderful books from The Chronicles of Narnia such as The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, The Horse and His Boy, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, as I snuggled …show more content…
Instead of mom reading children’s books to me, I read them to her. And if I stumbled upon something I didn’t know or understand, mom helped me out! Soon enough I started reading to her without stuttering of not knowing how to say a word. I started being able to sound out words easier and my fluency became much better than before. First grade came around and I started reading bigger books such as Junie B. Jones and also the Magic Treehouse books. Books became easier to read as I aged and the books I read were getting bigger and bigger. In 5th and 6th grade I read The Red Pyramid, The Throne of Fire, and The Serpents Shadow, a trilogy called The Kane Chronicles written by Rick Riordan. I thought these three books were the greatest three books ever written! I even thought they were better than the hunger games! Especially with the series being based around Egyptian gods and theology, and also managed to tie in kids around my age that I could relate to. Those books made me love reading more than I ever have and I would read them again if I had the time to. Once 8th grade came out along I decided to read a “big boy” book: DaVinci Code by Dan Brown. I thought I was so cool because I was reading a book that my parents have read. It has been the best book I have yet to read so far because it sparked my interest from the first sentence, to the last, there was intense suspense throughout the whole book and I could nonstop …show more content…
Summer readings from freshmen, sophomore, and junior year, and also the books we had to read during those years. Romeo and Juliet was a major book we read my freshmen year as well as Thirteen Reasons Why, and we read a few good books my sophomore year. We read The Great Gatsby, The Fault in our Stars, and Fahrenheit 451. There were reasons why we read those books, we did not just read them for fun. There is a little bit of a history lesson behind this too, and that is how literature was different in 1984 (pun intended) than it is now. Reading these books also helped with my interest in books by giving me different genera ideas that I might enjoy, but it also played a negative role because some of the parts of reading these books were boring to do. I think that both The Great Gatsby and The Fault in our Stars were good books for me and put a positive effect on my reading habits. I also liked reading these books because we usually watched a movie to go with the book, so I would read the book and try to picture everything in my mind as best as I could and then see how close my imagination can get to the movie. For example, in The Great Gatsby I tried to imagine the green light that Gatsby stares at and Gatsby’s ginormous house, or what the “Eyes of T.J. Eckleburg” look like staring down at the valley of ashes. Another example in The Fault in our Stars when Hazel and
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.
As a preteen, my parents thought that reading as a good hobbit needed to be foster from my childhood. Therefore, I had a bedtime for stories since I was three years old. My parents would prepare different stories and read for me everyday. The books at that time always had more cartoons than characters, and my parents would teach me to recognize characters in the books. Then, I went to the elementary school at six years old, and I
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.
I would only read books that were required for class, and even then I usually would not finish them. Reading was never something that I liked. When I got into high school, I started reading books for fun a little more than before. I was always a Harry Potter fan but since I did not like to read I only watched the movies. I remember reading those books and actually liking them. My junior year was also a time in my reading history that I remember well. As a class we were reading the Great Gatsby in time to see the movie for the midnight premier. Each day we were instructed to read up to a certain page, no further. I did not like the book at first, just like any other book I was forced to read for school. But, one night I was reading and the book got so interesting for me I could not put it down. That was the first book in along time that I enjoyed reading that was assigned to me. After my junior year, I went right back to my old ways of not reading books. My senior year I took AP English, so this required a lot of books. Thinking back to that year of school I remember finishing maybe one or two of those books. Although, I didn’t read all of those books, I still got a good grade in the class. One thing I did learn from that class about not reading all the books was reading the summaries is not good enough because, they leave out all the
... accepting things that it couldn’t before. Also reading is fun and it can take up some of your spare time after school or during school. Half the battle when it comes to reading is picking which kind of book that you want to read but if you read a certain genre each month the battle is already half way over. ‘Genre of the Month’ is a skill I picked up when I was in the 5th Grade. You don’t have to be in 5th grade to know that there is nothing not to like about reading. Reading is a relaxing and effective way to have fun, relax, calm down, get away from all the problems that are going on in your life. You get into someone else's skin for a while leaving yourself behind. You learn about new things, improve your vocabulary subconsciously and form new opinions. It can be informative, fun, exciting, scary, funny anything you want it to be. It's a very stirring experience.
As a child, I had a love hate relationship with reading. I loved reading books I picked and I hated reading the books my mom picked. Where I wanted to read books full of mysteries and where the cover had caught my eye, my mom wanted me to read the classics such as: Little Women, The Chronicles of Narnia, Hinds Feet on High Places and Ann of Green Gables. Fifteen years later, I now understand my mom wanted to show me there is a whole new world in books just waiting to be discovered. She taught me that sometimes you have to read outside your comfort zone to find the true treasures in literature. As I grew as a reader, I transitioned from Carolyn Keene’s Nancy Drew to Tamora Pierce’s Tortall and Circle of Magic series in childhood, to J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and Tim LaHaye’s Left Behind as a teenager. My mom helped me grow and begin what has turned into a lifetime love affair with the written word.
As I mentioned earlier all my experience with books and reading were not bad. I was in middle school when I read two books that I really captivated my attention. One was a biography of Harriet Tubman and the story of the Underground Railroad. I admired Harriet Tubman for her selfness and dedication to freeing slaves.
Reading was a rewarding distraction from the real world growing up, I painfully awaited until I had possession of the next book. Although I don't remember much, I do recall reading millions of books with my parents each and every night. My brother and I scrambled to see who could get to the bookshelf first. A library sat upon us, piled and filled to the top with books; collections from book fairs, hand me downs from older family members, and gifts. Out of all the stories to choose from, of course, I always happened to snatch the same one…”One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish” Dr. Seuss was my all time favorite! The rhymes, the characters, the goofy plot line, I loved, everything about it. The pages were wrinkled from overuse, just like
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.
Imagine living your entire life without knowing what was really going on around you. In most cases, younger people are frequently unaware of their surroundings. Whereas older people have had more experiences that help them throughout the rest of their lives. That’s what’s happening with these two young fish until they meet an older fish; who may seem odd to them. It’s always been said that as one matures they become wiser, and the older fish in this situation is obviously much wiser than the younger fish because of its knowledge of the concept of water. What I take away from this story is that the older fish was out of the water before, and therefore knows the role water plays in its life.
Before reading Harry Potter, I very rarely read for pleasure. I found reading boring, almost old fashioned. My frame of mind more readily paralleled Danny Divito in the movie Matlida, who says that “[t]here's nothing you can get from a book that you can't get from a television faster.” While my view of reading as a child could be summed up in that quote, everything changed when I was introduced to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. I can remember to this day when my Dad began reading Harry Potter to me, and how I did not understand just how much this book would change me. Harry Potter and his world of wizardry became my own personal Shangri-La, my escape, my own world. Anytime I wanted, I could ascend to a world of fantasy and explore the depths of my own imagination in a way that I had never been capable of doing before. I became obsessed with the book, reading it before, during, and after sc...
My parents instilled a passion for reading in me even as a toddler; years later, an excellent,
We began having a set class that primarily focused on literature. With the added course, we began to have more responsibilities with our reading assignments. We were to read 20 minutes a day, with a total of 100 minutes per week. We would keep track of this with a reading log that our parent would have to sign, assuring that we completed the assignment. After each book that we read we would then complete book reports. At the time I particularly did not enjoy book reports, but as I reflect back I realize that they really challenged me to not just read the book, but to study, connect, and to understand the text. In middle school, my teacher would read to us many different texts that were challenging. As a class we would dissect the pieces to engage and understand what the author was portraying. To Kill A Mockingbird was one of the books that we read where we completely annotated the entire story. Each part we all broke down the text for us to completely understand the time period and history behind the book. To Kill A Mockingbird is one of my favorite book that I have read thus far. Altogether, middle school was the pike of my literate life. During those years was when I could say that I fell in love with books and could fully understand the meaning behind the author’s
When I was in first grade, I came to the realization that I was unusual for how much I enjoyed reading. I was sitting in class looking at other kids meander their way through the assigned picture books, and I noticed that while I finished reading early and sat there hoping for something more, my peers were hard pressed to pay attention. It seemed like I had sat there waiting for new material to read a hundred times when my teacher asked me if I wanted to read a chapter book, After a tentative yes (I wasn’t exactly sure what I was getting into, but I had heard about older kids reading chapter books), my teacher went behind her desk and returned with something wonderful: a Magic Treehouse book.
When I asked my mom why she read to me when I was little, her answer was surprisingly simple. "It's what you're supposed to do with kids," she said. I can't attribute my love of reading to my mom's comprehension of basic parenting alone, since my mom also read to my sister and she despises reading, but it was definitely a factor. Maybe I was genetically disposed to enjoy reading, maybe being the oldest child made me more inclined to sit still and listen, maybe I just subconsciously chose to like books at a young age. Whatever the case may be, there's no denying the truth that I have always absolutely loved books.