How Reading Has Affected My Life

Reading will forever continue to play a role in my education, for many reasons. The most obvious one; how would we learn if we are not able to read? In the story “Literacy behind Bars” the author Malcom X tells his story of how he improved his education by reading and studying the dictionary while in prison. “No university would ask any student to devour literature as I did when this new world opened up to me, of being able to read and understand.” (Malcolm X 642). I find his story very important, because after all reading is key to succeeding in school and life.

Every word written or read is a chance to better yourself or someone else. Our words carry an enormous significance with them. Even if a person doesn’t enjoy reading or writing, they can not deny that fact. I bring this up because reading and writing has shaped me into the person I am today. So it is no surprise that I am willing to rant about how great reading and writing can be.

To me, reading means many things, not only the reading of text on a page but actions of others and myself as well. Most other people may not say that they will think of baseball games when thinking of how they read in real life, but I view the game of baseball that way and I like to share about how I can read in many different ways in life. Reading books is definitely not one of my favorite hobbies to do, but every once in a while I will find a good book that will catch my interest for the next couple of months. My learning experience from reading on the field has taught me another meaning of literacy that I would not have realized if I had not thought about what reading really meant to me. I can now understand how I use reading in all different aspects of my life better, and not just in the classroom but throughout my everyday activities, like baseball.

How has literacy impacted my life? From learning to read sight words and write sentences to progressing all the way to thick chapter books and lengthy essays, literacy has been a long and incredibly significant journey in my life. Literacy has been a fantastic and influential adventure because of exciting personal experiences that first took root at age two, the inspiration of an elementary school teacher, Mrs. Peake, and memorable events including the Accelerated Reader program and discovering my favorite childhood book series.

I’ve always been an avid reader. When I was in elementary school, my mother would take my brother and I to the library every week to pick out books. I would take the books to school and read them all in one day. I loved reading so much that my teachers would call home and tell my parents that I was reading my library books during class instead of my textbooks. Reading has always been a major part of my life. I used to aspire to become an author. I even wanted to become an editor at one point. I used to make daily household newspapers and magazines for my entire family to read and enjoy. My strong love for reading certainly came in handy during my freshman year of high school.

Do you remember the first book you learned to read? Well, I do and it shaped me into the reader I am today. During my early years in elementary school, I began to learn about what reading was and how to read books. I always remember my kindergarten teacher reading “Love you forever” before I would go to nap time everyday. I eventually learned to read my favorite childhood book on my own. However, this was a problem when I didn't want to branch out and read books to better my reading skills. Reading and writing are such and important aspect in our lives that get abused every day. It may sound silly, but as a young child I came in contact with books that impacted me, changed me, and shaped me into the reader and writer I am today.

I would like to tell you a few stories about how reading is important to our life.

By the time that I was twelve, I discovered that I love to read. It is the best pass time that I could find to do. Every time I open up a book it's as if I'm in my own world, a place of bliss. Like I'm watching a movie in my head but I'm the director. I find it easier to read in complete silence that way my thoughts can echo out much further and louder. One of the things that I usually do is stop in the page that I'm reading in and start asking myself questions and try to foreshadow what I might believe will happen at the end.

There once was a time when I felt liberated. A time when reading was an adventure, where I lived so many different lives, and each was refreshing. I remember the dim light of the hallway spilling into my bedroom as my dad would sit outside my bedroom door, reading. He read all sorts of stories, and each he made come to life with his voice, each of the characters with a unique timbre, and my siblings and I hung on every word. I remember the first time I ever heard Harry Potter, which was one of these times. My father would begin using a British accent when narrating, and as he proceeded in dialogue, he would use voices that suited the character, a higher pitched girlish voice for Hermione, and a monotoned disinterested voice for Severus Snape.

The Goods and Bad throughout literacy Reading has impacted my life in many different ways throughout my lifetime, but his has also made me hate reading to the limit. I started very strong in my early days progressing to become a better reader than once middle school hit it was almost like I hit brick wall. After I hit after middle school I did improve but at a slower rate than where I should be. Now I find reading a waste of time

I went through a tumultuous period especially in second grade and was able to evade the darker path. Reading circumvented me from getting into more trouble during that time period. I was enlightened through reading class, my family, and my second grade main teacher. Because of them, I became more aware of the world than I already was. These experiences have forever helped me establish an aptitude for reading so I can gain

I believe in this article 100%. Reading definitely changes you for the better, and I can tie in with the improvement in my writing and extensive vocabulary as well as a surprising empathic side of me that grew once I started to get into reading. The benefits of reading are worth taking 15 minutes (or more) out of your daily schedule to pick up a book and get lost in it.

Literacy has played a very big and important role in my life. Without literacy I would not be able to read or write and I would not have made it to being a junior in high school. Literacy has been an important tool in my progression through life. Literacy is everywhere from tv, books, newspapers, and throughout communities. It helps me being able to do my homework and my school work. Literacy is learned from a young age, most people learn from their parents. My parents taught me how to speak and say different words which eventually led to me liking to read at a young age. This helped me be good at reading and be ahead of some of the other kids in my grade.I learned a lot from my parents they, started me out on short, easy books that got harder and harder with each level of the books and this eventually helped me to become a very good reader.In kindergarten, I learned about literacy for

My grandma and aunt taught me how to read before I started school as a kid. I did not like to read much as a kid in school. Reading helps a lot of people out even in school or something important. Reading now has gotten much easier for me as I have gotten older. My journey as a rader has helped me in school.

Reading and writing are two of the most important tools in my life, because without them I would not have an education. They form the basis of a class; for example, completing a lab in chemistry would not be possible without following a written lab procedure. These two skills are taught at such a young age, and as education advances students must continue to strive to reach a higher level. I can remember in elementary school, we were always pushed to reach the next reading level once we had successfully mastered the one we were on. It was always a competition for my sister and I to be at a higher level, I usually won. Even though I was excelling in reading it was the complete opposite for writing. It is something that has never come easy