My Literacy Autobiography Essay

As a teenager, I now look back and realize how vital it is for children to learn to read and write at such young ages. I am so thankful for parents that read books with me before I even started school, and I am also thankful for the teachers who taught me vowel sounds, prefixes, suffixes, and much more. Teachers also taught me that reading could be fun, which encouraged students to want to read in their free time. Reading and writing are unique activities to me because these activities can be used academically or for personal entertainment. Reading has had a huge impact on my life in the past, present, and hopefully in the future.

Have you ever read a word and pronounced it completely different than its actual pronunciation? Well I have! As a student, I have experienced many aspects of reading and writing. I am currently a junior in highschool so I haven’t experienced it all. English is a crazy language and the rules for the language are also very crazy. In this literacy narrative I will introduce my experiences in reading and writing and how they have impacted my life.

Some of the oldest and fondest memories I have from my childhood are those of my mother reading to me. Before I even began Kindergarten, I remember my mom reading stories to me from children’s books, or making up stories as she went along. I enjoyed listening to the stories and still remember some to this day. She also taught me how to write my name, count, and recite the alphabet. I loved the time I spent reading with my mom because she made it fun, so much so that I didn’t realize I was learning.

My earliest memory of literacy is being in kindergarten. Sitting in front of my teacher listening to her read to the class. From that point on I have been reading anything I can get my hands on, sports-related materials or just world news. I think literacy plays an important part of everyday living. My sister is 10 years older than myself (I am 39) and she is a teacher, so she played a huge role in teaching me the importance of being literate. I can still remember my elementary days when she was in highschool and would practice her teaching skills with me. Once I grew older I understood how important reading and writing was in order to be able to function in and out of school. The very first time I came home to visit during my freshman year

Danielle Pitch Dr. Whipple ENG 439: Literacy and Technology 13 February 2017 My Techno-Literacy Autobiography Literacy and expression have played major roles in my development as a person. For me, literacy not only involves technical skills, such as reading and writing, but it also encompasses the ability to develop one’s knowledge through proficiency and within a community of practice. Stemming from my definition of literacy, I also include being a proficient New Yorker and the passion I have for fashion in what I deem to be literate in. These complex and inclusive literacies contain the same overarching themes that have allowed me to interact effortlessly with society.

I learned how to write stories when i was a little kid. As I grew up and got older I got better and better. I learned

We were pretty creative kids, as you can tell. When he was writing a new chapter, he would talk to me and tell me about what he writes and how he does it. He even showed me his brainstorming papers, some of which I still have today. All of this is what inspired me to start my own writing. It was first RLS related and slowly grew into my own (really god awful) original stories that a five-year-old could be proud of. During kindergarten, any free time I ever had, I dedicated to my novel writing. I even wrote stories for my friends just to be able to write more. This continued all through that year, and then I hit first

One of the biggest milestones as a baby is saying your first word, then that word becomes a sentence, and those sentences become paragraphs, and before you know it those paragraphs become a whole book. Reading and writing are such an essential part of everyday life and they play a large role in shaping who we are as people. Growing up, I have had a sense of determination that has helped me to blossom throughout my literacy journey in order to be where I am today.

The earliest memory of my writing is in 4th grade we had to do the weekend news every Monday and it was due at the end of the day. I first would write down bullet points of what I did, for example, if I celebrated a birthday with someone or hanged out with my friends then we had to write it by hand on notebook paper and it had to be at least a page long. I was always the quickest because of what I did.

It was not until I reached kindergarten where I first learned how to write. Having parents that were not fluent in English and worked almost all day, I found school being the gateway to my academic success. Learning how to trace letters were the first steps to my literacy journey. Every morning, I would sit in my assigned seat where I had my very own box that contained my crayons. My first task was to trace my name on the paper with crayons, something that every kindergartner is anticipated to fulfill. I remember having so most trouble, everyone has trouble from time to time, but in my case it was all the time. Once the bell rang for recess, all the kids ran right past me to go play outside once they finished writing their name successfully. I was always the last one to go and my teacher, Mrs. Ross, would have to slowly spend more time with me, holding my hand and tracing my name so I could get the hang of it. I did not have the same help at home as I did in school. Unfortunately, my parents could not help me with any of my school work; I either had to be self taught or I had to turn to my teacher for assistance. “The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me.” (Hellen Keller) I can relate to this quote because my kindergarten teacher was someone who inspired and motivated me to go past all odds. Like Hellen Keller, meeting Mrs.

I started writing in preschool and started typing in the 2nd grade. I have always been good at writing or telling stories. And making up tall tales.

Reading and writing are essential to any humans’ way of life. From the ages of 3 to 6 my mom had read to me every night before bedtime. The stories she had read to me ranged from fairytales to Dr. Seuss. The first chapter book I remember reading was in 1st grade. The teacher allowed us access to one book from her bookshelf. I chose Kristy’s Big Day from The Babysitters Club collection. I took such a huge liking to it that I begged my mom to buy me a collection of the books, which now reside at my aunt’s house. It took me the whole summer to a set of 15 books. While, I was in 3rd grade I began to write poetry. I showed my teacher some of the poems and she thought they were so incredible that she wanted me to write more,

My freshman year of high school, I discovered that I liked reading more than writing when my brother bought me a journal to write in. I

Learning how to first write, I believe, for kids is always fascinating, because it is something new to them. Starting out is simple, such as writing letters of the alphabet and slowly progressing into writing words, sentences, paragraphs, and whole papers. Even though I was a creative kid, through the years of elementary school it began to become tougher. I ran into obstacles when I was told to write a comic strip, a short story, and a paper about ourselves. Not being able to write what was coming to my mind in a manner that made sense frustrated me. Throughout elementary school I struggled with writing because I never figured out how to fix this problem. During these years I succeeded in reading and I would soon hope to in writing.

First, I started learning how to write a letter. Later on I learned that letters became words and the words became sentences .Also, reading a book taught me how to write was a way of expressing my feelings. Even if the life experience of a six years old child does not have a lot of things to write about, the adventures of everyday life inspired me to write my first page in my life.