Becoming Literate Anxious Joy Analysis

Literacy plays a huge role in many people’s lives everyday, whether it is learning how to read and write for the first time or writing a five-page essay for the hundredth time. We experience literacy differently and have our very own unique stories on how it has impacted our lives and had made us who we are today. It is an essential aspect that I use in my everyday life, such as in relationships, daily interactions with others, and learning. It has become such a powerful aspect and human right in which it allows one to speak his/her mind and in some cases express their opinion to the world. My personal literacy history has shaped me into who I am today because without my experiences I would not have been able to gain the confidence and

“Dane why do you never take your book home and read? You know we have a quiz on chapter 10 next class.” said Mrs. Mabe. Growing up I never enjoyed reading because we had to take tests, answer questions, and write journals over the reading. Therefore, I only did it because I was required too. My experience with reading and writing has been a stressful, boring, and opportunistic journey. When I was very young, my parents would read to me, but once I started school it all faded away. I don’t struggle to read and write; only the fact that I don’t enjoy the process. For me, both of these are very time consuming and not enjoyable. Although, none of this was fun to me; my parents strived for my success, and mentored me.

Reading books aloud to children from a very young age stimulates their imagination and helps with their social and emotional development. When children are read to they are can express their emotions clearer and develop their social skills. Children learn how to pronounce their words, build on their listening skills and also help them to improve on their spelling when they begin to read for themselves.

Children are natural learners; exploring this is always searched for. Reading would be considered comfort to children. Books have the ability to give inspiration, creative skills and many useful life skills. It was and still is positive reinforcement. The idea of having a book read to a child by someone they appreciated is trust, support and guidance.

My first memory of ever being exposed to reading was when i was six years old and my mom started introducing books before bed. She came home one day with a bag full of books and a smile on her face, she had just received some of the books and stories dad would read to her when she was a kid. She told me that she would get tucked into bed and her dad would let her pick a different book every night until there were no new ones to choose from. They would then makeup tales and "write" their own stories that was a fond childhood memory she had and she wanted me to have as well. This tradition is something i really admire and look forward to sharing with my children one day. That is the first memory i have of ever being exposed to reading and i am

My aunt would bring books home from school and read to me when i was little. My grandma ordered a lot of books off of tv. They would make me read one book a day before i could play outside. I did not have a favorite book as a kid because reading was not my best subject.

During my early literacy years, one of my first reading memories was when I was around three or four years old. Every night my mom would take time out of her day to read me a book before bed. This was something I looked forward to every day I loved

The earliest I can think of someone reading to me is when I was about two years old. I have this picture of my grandma reading Teddy and the Duckling to me on the couch and we are both smiling. I can remember being read books when I was little especially before bed. My mom and dad would always come in my room and tuck me in, so I had them read

Some parents may say they are too busy with their daily activities and do not have the time necessary to read to their children. Although that may have been a valid excuse in the past, today, a Lot of children’s books are available for free through online music stores such as iTunes or Google play. Why not consider getting one to read to them during the next outing? Not only will doing this likely help keep them occupied, but it will also likely encourage them to (a) read books themselves and (b) possess a more extensive imagination essentially enabling them to make-up and tell their own stories thus enabling them to entertain themselves in a vast majority of uninteresting environments or situations.

Literacy has always been a huge part of my educational journey. Starting in Pre K, I was required to write and illustrate a book each year up until the 6th grade. We could write and draw any and everything we wanted. These books were not graded nor did they have any affect as to if you were to be promoted to the next grade or held back, but rather for teachers to review and see our improvements over that year. The books were always returned to us during the last week of school for us to take home as a keepsake. These books gave me something to be proud of and I looked forward to the day we would start another one.

Reading became a big part of my life at an early age. Every night before bed I would beg and plead my dad to read a bedtime story to me. I had a tall stack of books on my bed stand, but somehow we always ended up reading the same one. This children's story was a book my dad had bought me for a birthday or Christmas that he thought I would enjoy. The story itself was a spinoff on various fairy tales like Jack and the Beanstalk and Humpty Dumpty. The book alone was good, but we would keep coming back to that book because of the way my dad read it to me. He had a different voice for each character which I found thoroughly hilarious. Every time we read the book, there would be a new voice, and I'd be excited each night for bedtime so that I could hear how the story would change. When I got a little older, my dad bought me the whole collection of the Little House on the Prairie books. That level of reading was a little outside of my reach so my dad would read me a few chapters each night. I loved listening to these stories, and the books had small, but colorful pictures on every other page that grabbed my attention. By the time we read the first three or four books together, I was able to read the rest of them on my own. There were nine books in that series, and I read them all. My dad has influenced my love for reading in more ways than one. Not only would he be sure that he read me a story every night, but every year for my birthday and Christmas my dad bought me a book that he read when he was my age. For my 10th birthday, he bought me Old Yeller and explained how it was his favorite book when he was young, and how

For as long as I can remember, reading and writing have played a major roll in my life. Since the beginning of starting school, the subject of literacy has been stressed for importance and branded into my mind as the one skill you’ll need for every single aspect of your life. Children are introduced to this lovely and fun idea of reading with picture books that are pleasing to the eye and depict animal characters with a soft moral lesson present in the stories. At this age that is the extent of reading children will perform and writing is limited to simple sentences with short words that often misspelled. Soon after this stage of reading is mastered in a testable manner of fluency, the cute illustrations that you they so loved began to decrease and the words develop and increase in number. It is not long until you are introduced to longer and longer stories and passages that are now strictly about humans, their feelings, memories, and opinions. That time between learning how to read and learning how to truly write seems to have flied by, looking back now. As a currently enrolled junior in high school my understanding and feelings towards literacy have greatly changed since the time I was a young child.

I have always loved reading books. Ever since I was a young child, I would stay up for hours reading books. I remember pouring over my stories until my dad’s alarm clock went off at 6 am and thinking, Oh crap, I did it again. I read my books over and over again, with each turn of page, my childhood ticked by.

Reading aloud to children stimulates their language and listening skills and prepares them to comprehend our written words. It also develops a child’s imagination, creativity and knowledge of the world. When my parents made the decision to start a family, my mother decided to leave her job as an elementary school teacher and become a stay-at-home mom instead. She chose to make this tough decision because she wanted to develop my siblings and I’s skills as much as she could before we started school to set up our lives for success. I have an older brother and a younger sister and my mother devoted her time into each of us and specifically developed our skills. Every day she would sing songs to me, repeat basic English words and read simple board books to me up until I was about eight months old. At that point, my brain had been so stimulated already and was progressing at a fast pace. I said my first word “mom” at

Literacy has always been an important part of my life. Unfortunately, I actually do not recall the moment when I realized that I could read by myself. I also do not remember reading or writing in my early years (kindergarten and first grade) or what my teachers taught me about literacy during that time. However, that doesn’t mean that literacy wasn’t important to me. I have always loved reading. My favorite moments from elementary school were when my favorite teachers would read to me and my classmates. I loved when my second grade teacher, Ms. Walker, and my fourth grade teacher, Mrs. Seymour, would read. I loved hearing them read because of how animated and excited they would be when they read to me and my class. Seeing them get excited to read made me feel the same way. I feel like their actions and feelings definitely encouraged me to feel excited to read books.