What I Learned When I Learn How To Read

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There is one person that I can recall that significantly taught me how to read more than anyone else and that person is my aunt, Jennie. Aunt Jennie was a first grade teacher at the time, so it was basically her job to teach kids how to read, and she took on the task of teaching me how to read too. She is an incredibly important figure in my life. She only lives 10 minutes or so away from me, so I would see her all the time, and thus it was fairly convenient for her to come over quickly and teach me after school. I was only 4 when she taught me how to read, and she taught me like I was another student in her first grade class, so I became very advanced for my age. It was extremely helpful for me to learn at an early age and I believe that one should learn as soon as they can, and when I have kids I’m going to teach them early. …show more content…

If I remember correctly, when I was in third grade, I read at a sixth grade level, which was fairly unheard of, and I definitely owe this to Aunt Jennie. Learning how to read early allowed for me to focus on other school subjects, in particular math, and I was able to become advanced in math as well. Now, many years since Aunt Jennie taught me, I was able to take AP Calculus in high school and get my math credits taken care of for college, which saves a lot of money. This shows how Aunt Jennie teaching me how to read at an earlier age essentially led to me being advanced in multiple different subjects my whole life and ultimately saving money in

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