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The definition of literacy is "the ability to read and write”. A large portion of people in the world are literate. But how did we get here? How did we learn how to pronounce words that we saw on the pages of a book, and in turn, write them? We all learned in some way. We weren’t born knowing how to read a chapter book or write a sentence. It was stressful, and a lot to learn considering that the English language is one of the toughest to learn. Today, literacy is a factor in most of our lives. So, there was a starting point for all of us. Although it was many years ago when I first learned to read, there are many factors that I vividly remember that influenced my ability to read and write. We all have a unique story on how we became literate. …show more content…

My dad was always interested in plays and poetry, as well as reading about history. My mom was a very good student in highschool and throughout college, so she read many books and appreciated the literature she was introduced to over the years. Naturally, when they had me, their firstborn, literature would soon become a part of my life. I had to ask my mother about how I first learned to read, or how I was first introduced to literature at all, because I don't remember something so long ago. She said "I read to you even when you were in my stomach, so maybe I was just reading to myself, but I know that I read to you every night. After you were born too, and probably even a few years or so after you'd learned to read on your own." So, the idea of literature has always been a part of my life, since I was in my mom's stomach. The older I grew, the more I loved to read. The reading of bedtime stories became a nightly routine. Although we had an extensive selection of children's books at my house, it seemed that we were always getting more. I was enthralled by the movie Beauty and The Beast, so one day my mom surprised me with the book version. I was only 2 or 3 at the time. I would make my mom read that book over and over to me every night. I made her read it to me so much, that I eventually memorized it. I was only 3, so my mom thought that I was some sort of toddler genius, until she …show more content…

My favorite book at the time of kindergarten, where I was about 6, was called Charlie the Horse. I can picture my family’s old dodge minivan now. It was silver, had a dent in the side from my brother running into it with his scooter, and the windows for the back seats didn't go all the way down. The way the van was made, the windows just lifted up a little and made a small slit at the bottom for air to get into the car. My dad would say, “Load em up!” each time my family took a trip. Those three words for me, meant to grab my book and my barbie and be on my way. A fact necessary to the understanding of this that as a little kid, I made a point to do something mildly dangerous each day. I didn’t do anything too wild, just enough to make my mother concerned. The day this all specific situation took place, I had decided to cut back on my reckless ways. I decided this because, of course I felt sorry for constantly terrorizing my younger brothers, but also because I really missed when my mom would feed me candy. “When you’re bad, you don’t get candy.”, she said. I came to this conclusion: maybe, just maybe, being good had it’s perks. I opted to hold my book out of the little slit window instead of my usual. As a kindergartener, one can only do so much for an adrenaline rush. I just thought it was fun to try to hold on to my book with the chance that it could fall. I did it very

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