Personal Narrative-Synlectual Analysis

When I got into high school, I still loved to read, although I didn’t have as much time to read. I still tried to fit time to read in between doing homework, going to cross country practice, and spending time with my family. I went to the library when I had the chance and loved when I got to sit in bed and

27, 2009). In addition to time limits, ELLs tend to use over generalizations within their written responses that affect their mechanics (spelling, fragments). Zenaida et al (2006), found that the most common mistakes ELLs made within their writing was due to their mechanics. Many ELLs struggle with spelling mistakes because their native language impedes their listening within the English language and their native language morphemes commonly sound different than those in English.

My literacy journey had begun earlier than most kids, according to my mother. I started reading in kindergarten, with help with the BOB books and the PBS show Between the Lions. I don’t know when I had started writing exactly, but I remember clearly writing short stories about my cat Stormy in 3rd grade. At that time we had to write weekly short stories, and I only ever wrote about my cat. In 4th grade, I had started exploring writing more; I would write plays for me and my friends to practice during recess. Most of them, I’m happy to say, were actually educational, so my teacher had even let my friends and I perform one about early-American settlers in front of our whole class.

I have never been the best at spelling even back in elementary when we would have a class spelling bee. I would get so nervous that I would look dumb in front of the school if I was to miss spell a word that I should know. So when we would have the first round in the class room I would try to be funny to hide my fear and miss spell my first word on purpose just so I wouldn’t have to spell anything in front of the whole school. I thought I was saving myself from embarrassment but in all reality I was only hurting my chances of learning. Being older and a little wiser I wish I would have fully participated and took the spelling bee more serious. What I didn’t know then is that “If you try, you might fail, but if you don’t try, you’ll never succeed.” (Tomas

     Cau yon reab mwat I aw mriting? If yon caunot reab it waybe is is decanse this is hom a persou with byslexia wight reab somethiug. A person with dyslexia has a very difficult lifestyle to live. To understand dyslexia you must be aware of the causes, effects strategies, and teaching methods for coping with the disease. “Dyslexia means having difficulty with words in reading, spelling and writing – in spite of having normal intelligence and ability” (Make the Connection).

Every night my mom would read me a chapter or two of a “Junie B Jones” book. I couldn't wait until I was old enough to read by myself. I enjoyed reading when I first learned how. The first series I really liked was “Diary of a Wimpy Kid”. I’ve read every single book in the series. Whenever a new book from the series would come out, i’d get it first thing the next day. I never really read that often after I finished the “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” series. Those books really entertained me and anything else I read from the point didn't sway me. In fourth grade, I had a really awesome teacher that was really hard on me, but I really believe she helped me the most. I don't remember everything we did, I really don’t remember most of the stuff we did. I just remember getting to 5th grade and writing was so easy for me. So was math, science, etc.

First of all, most people can no longer able to hold a conversation without looking at their phone every few minutes. Our ability to conversant is dwindling due to text lingo. As Nicholas Carr, said 1“Just as there’s a tendency to glorify technological progress, there’s a countertendency to expect the worst of every new tool or machine”. As I was walking through the mall one day I overheard a group of teen girls talking and every few words was either “omg”, “like” or “seriously”. Nowadays, when writing to friends common words are often shortened to save time, but what most people do not realize, is that people develop habits and after so many uses of text lingo the actual way to spell the word goes away.

People don’t know how to spell anymore! This skill is becoming rarer in America. “The Country’s Going Through A Rough Spell” by Bob Greene, is about how more and more Americans don’t know how to spell correctly. People don’t think they need to know how to do it, or that it is too hard to bother with. Bob Greene is dismayed by how many people don't know how to spell. Every letter he reads has some misspelling. Letters from students, businessmen, executives, secretaries and even teachers have misspellings. Furthermore, people are too lazy to look up the word they don't know how to spell. It’s a simple step to take, but people aren’t taking it. That’s the saddest part about the Americans’ disability to spell. Misspelling words shows a lack of

I find it interesting is that it is so simple to read yet there are so many steps that are needed to just read one word.

Every night my mom would read me a chapter or two of a “Junie B Jones” book. I couldn't wait until I was old enough to read by myself. Reading seemed like a special power people posessed when they got older, it seemed astonishing to me. The first series I really liked was “Diary of a Wimpy Kid”. I’ve read every single book in the series, whenever the next book from the series would come out, i’d get it first thing the next day. I never really read that often after I finished the “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” series. Those books really entertained me and anything else I read from the point didn't sway me. In fourth grade, I had a really awesome teacher that was really hard on me, but I really believe she helped me the most. I don't remember everything

Reading has been one of my favorite hobbies since I was a little child. I grew up as a normal child should grow and eventually I had to start learning for me to fit in society. My literacy started many years ago, after I knew how to talk and communicate with people. Reading my alphabet was quite stressful and I had to be given a hand by my family members. I remember my parents reading with me and it was the most meaningful and memorable way to spend time with me. This is because I liked reading a lot and I was eager to learn so that I could fit in with my older siblings. My favorite books were storybooks taking about adventures and fairytales

Word recognition involves an individual’s ability to identify words independently without requiring related words for contextual help. A widely examined topic in the field of cognitive psychology, it deals with understanding printed letters as a word which has been kept in the lexicon. The word frequency effect is important in the recognition of words. It suggests more common words in printed language are easier, faster and more accurate to distinguish than words that appear less frequently. Outlined in their journal article, Howes and Solomon utilized Thorndike-Lorge’s word count for word frequency and measured the threshold of recognition. They found correlation coefficients of -.68 to -.75 between word frequency and threshold or duration.

Moreover, the school year started, so my anxiety. I was late for homeroom because I got lost in a different floor. Next thing I knew it was my lunch period, which didn’t open my appetite at all. Fried chicken and pizza are not a real meal for me, but they were the only thing the lunch’s menu was about, every day. Therefore, I wasn’t eating any lunch; and it kept being like that during the whole school year. That is to say, I lost a lot of weight that my chest bones could be seen.

Just by looking at the people around me, I knew that I did not fit in. Foreign language and new faces surrounded me. It was spring break during my junior year of high school and I was standing outside the coliseum in Rome Italy. I met many people who looked at me like I did not belong and people who were frustrated because I was not speaking the correct language, their language. I knew that we had different cultures and different life styles. I was not only in a foreign country but I was in a foreign position. I had not known what it felt like to be in the position of a person who was living in or, visiting a foreign country. I could have only imagined how the people of Italy felt about the enormous amount of uneducated people that visit their

“The constraints of language help define our notion of romance,” writes Mark Steyn, “and in English we 're more constrained than most. There are just four and a half rhymes for ‘love,’ approximately three-quarters of which offer very meagre possibilities.” What is remarkable, in a way, is that there should be any rhymes at all. If language is differential at its base, if “differences of sound and sense are the only markers of meaning” (Norris 24-5), then similarity – the relative lack of difference – should, if anything, tend toward meaninglessness.