My Love Of Reading

Thanks to literacy i can form my own kind of art and can explain myself to my grandmother like no one else could, I don’t have to be the greatest writer just to show who i am as a person even though my grammar isn't the best. In literacy the greatest value is the to believe in yourself and just be you there is many other people who have the same problems and fears. Another of my personal experiences with literacy was in high school in one of my English class we had to write a journals, it didn't matter what it was about most people wrote about what they are going to do after school but I decided to just write about my life, it was a way to express myself and a note to look back at. It was during my freshman year and I remember writing a lot about my life and the language struggles I was going through at the time. It made me feel better just letting everything out on paper and not really telling it to someone, it was my own book that I could write just for me to look back at. It was mid September when the teacher told us to share a story if our choice from our journal and summarized it to a classmate. I was sharing my story with a girl who sat next to me it, our stories were similar and the way we had styled the type of writing in them made us connect with each other later that month we became really close and spend most of our free time together. Now after 4 years I'm still close with her and get to exchange our different ways of life everyday, it's incredible

Thanks to hours and hours of bedtime stories, I was able to read from the age of 3. In kindergarten I read to my classmates, and by second grade I was reading series like The Boxcar Children and Trixie Belden. Books allowed me to get lost in other worlds full of adventure and excitement. My love for what words can do has extended through high school. I pride myself on my book collection, anything from Hunger Games to The Picture of Dorian Gray. I’ve continued to read all the way through high school, some books four or five times because I love them so much.

Ever since I was a little girl I would sing everywhere, in the bathroom, the car, at school, and at parties but my favorite spot has always been in the shower. I would never sing in front of my brother, he would always tease me about my voice. Being teased made me feel like I wasn't good enough. Because of that I stopped singing for a while. At that time, I didn’t know what to do singing had been part of my life even before I even came out the womb. I've been told my aunt would sing to me frequently. I felt completely at lost, I was unidentifiable with myself. I need music in my life.

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.

Growing up as a very exceptional reader, reading has been a huge impact on my life. I learned to read at an early age. My parents were excellent readers also, so I made them read to me almost every day at home. I made them read to me books that had complicated words in it. I was one of those children that actually wanted to read books, so my parents getting me to read was not a hard task to do. If it wasn’t for reading, I wouldn’t be where I am today.

Some of my favorite books, mostly Dr. Seuss, mostly got me going on my reading skills. It was easy. Word were easy to pronounce and they also had pic to help me with words I couldn’t even say. I felt important reading his books. Then, as I got older and my reading skills improved, chapter books came into play. Through my childhood I did not have it so easy. My brother passed and he mostly taught me how to correctly read. So when he left, I was stuck. I had other people in my family to help but once you get use to that favorite person helping you, you get attached. When it came to one of my other brother, it sucked. I usually get talked about constantly by him because he was older and always run his mouth when I came across a word that I didn’t know. Reading books became an easy escape at that age. It was something to do, and kept me occupied without having to talk to myself. It was also a way to read about other people and about their lives, which I think is a reason for my taste in books now. My parents and my favorite math teacher always told me that I'm a very bright individual and my accomplishments in other subjects prove that. I approached and passed science and surprisingly math. They both dealt with reading and understanding things that I needed to know. To me, writing equals to nothing more than stress and frustration. I thought was too stupid to waste effort

four, my grandmother began teaching me the basics of reading and how to write the alphabet. The hours spent working with my grandmother influenced the love I have for literature. Although I have a passion for reading and writing, I feel this passion slowly fading with age. As I get older, I realize that reading does not seem as enjoyable as it used to be for me. Reading and writing has influenced my life in a thankful, a joyful, but also a slightly negative way.

Reading can guide you to creativity and learning. As Dr. Seuss, one of the best children book authors, states in his quote “The more that you read the more things you will know. The more that you learn the more places you'll go.”(I Can Read With My Eyes Shut, Dr. Seuss,). In my opinion Dr. Seuss is correct. The more that you read the more that you learn and the more places you can journey too. Reading can take you out of this world to alternative places or it can fill you with information. Reading is important since text surrounds the world.

From an early age I always enjoyed reading and read often. As a result, reading became an aspect of print literacy I would consider a strength. I still enjoy reading greatly and would say that I am a highly active reader. A large benefactor in this, in my opinion, was the creation of eBooks and e-readers such as the kindle. Having owned a Kindle for many years, I can say with certainty that it has made books easier to read and a lot more accessible

I was never a fan of reading when I was younger I always thought of it as a waste of time. However when I my aunt got incredibly sick reading became my escape from reality. I remember sitting in the hospital waiting room waiting for my turn to go in to see my Aunt I would just sit there and read 4-5 books a day. When I would read I would get lost I would feel like one of the characters in the book and that all the problems and issues that me and my family were going through didn't matter at the time. After I lost my aunt I started writing in a journal of just how hard it was to except the fact that she was gone and that i wouldn't be able to see her everyday anymore. Writing and reading later became my best friend I started downloading book after book and after I finished the book I would write about and how I related to it. That was my escape from reality, I slowly started to understand that my aunt passing away made me mature in so many

I have always loved to read. In fact, Dr. Seuss’s children’s books were my favourite and I still keep them in my shelves today. Reading filled my imagination and gave me inspiration since childhood that still impacts me today.

Reading expands my horizons and helps me become open-minded to how others think and feel, which can help me become a good writer. Reading is a big part of writing. I used to think I could pull it off, when really, I couldn't. Also, I can expand my vocabulary with reading. My vocabulary was getting worse when I wasn't reading. My spelling began to fail me. When I told my sister that I wanted to expand my vocabulary to sound smart, she told me not to sound smart. She told me to be smart. Reading helps you become smart, and I will need that intelligence because I don’t want to walk around in a new city, or professional setting sounding like I am

Reading and writing is a significant component of life; in fact, an enormous amount of people benefit from the ability to read and write. Books may either express a story or may enlighten a person on a certain subject; just as, writing gives people the ability to express their feelings or write a story for entertainment. Likewise, there are numberless ways reading and writing can either express feeling or generate hours of entertainment. Writing is a way I keep myself busy when I have something on my mind. In addition, reading and writing has impacted my life by helping to improve my speech, expanding my knowledge, allowing me read the letters I received from my grandparents and write them back and providing countless hours of entertainment.

Personally, reading has had a great impact on my life. As a child in school, I struggled with reading and was placed in remedial classes. It took a few years for my ability to gain strength and to rise up to a “normal” reading level. For many years following high school graduation I did not give the subject of reading very much attention, this all changed once I had children. Reading to them and watching their young minds explode with imagination helped me realize the importance of having a strong ability to read, understand, and convey your message to others. Moreover, since I started attending the UoPeople, I have never read so much and I have found my level of comprehension has increased tenfold. On many occasion, I will have either my

Growing up, I had a lot of free time and I recall reading to fill in that gap. This established my solid vocabulary. The imagination, vocabulary, and knowledge I gain from reading translates into my everyday vernacular. Even my teachers take notice and recommend their favorite reads for me to read. Books help me pass time, but more importantly allow me to articulate