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Personal Narrative-It's Time To Read

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I’m sitting within my petite Barbie dollhouse when suddenly I hear a slam at the door. I immediately stand up from my pink chair and sprint to the front of the house; it’s my older sister who has arrived from elementary school. From the second she would step foot in the house I would yell at her, “It’s time to read!” after a few eye rolls she would finally squat beside me and read a Dr. Seuss book. The way the words would just roll off her tongue so smoothly made English look so effortless, however, when she handed me the book for me to read I didn’t know where to begin, all that came out of my mouth was gibberish. I would make up my own words, not even knowing what they meant but for some reason, it was satisfying. As I continued to …show more content…

The smell of hand sanitizer roamed the classroom and children were running in and out of the maze the desk made. I, on the other hand, remember sitting impatiently in my seat waiting for the teacher to give instruction. I came to the conclusion that the teacher was most likely speaking to the parents and it was going to take awhile for her to get back to us, thence I grabbed the Dr. Seuss book from my overly packed backpack and placed it on my desk and began reading. Suddenly my page grew dark and I felt hot air touch the back of my neck, I turned my head around and there was this tall female figure looking down at me with a colossal smile as white as paper, it was my teacher, Mrs. Hilda. She took ahold of the chair beside me and sat down, I recall she asked me what I was reading and I told her it was my favorite book, “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” by Dr. Seuss. Memories of the conversation with Mrs. Hilda aren’t clear, however, I do remember after school everyday while I’d be waiting for my parents to pick me up from school she would snatch a book from the reading section within the classroom and we would read together. I would read one page as she read the other, and we did this everyday until the last week of

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