Reading And Reading : My Experience Of Reading

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.

I wasn't interested in books when I was very young, except for an interest in comic books. Maybe that's because I was never really read to consistently. My mother claims to have read to me some when I was younger, but I don't remember it. Giving birth to five kids in seven years, and having one die at three days old, sort of cut into her time for entertaining me with thrilling renditions of The Cat in the Hat. I had to entertain myself with what I could find, and I picked up some basic reading skills from some of the kid's shows on television in the sixties. When I hit that magical age of six and went to elementary school, I was introduced to the first real books I can remember. There I learned about the world of Alice and Jerry,

James Patterson perfectly sums up my lengthy, arduous, and ever-changing relationship with reading. "There is no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books." As I grow older, and come to appreciate the influence that words have over the human mind and soul, this quote resonates with me more deeply. The interpretation of words has had an immense impact over my life, and is something I will be forever indebted to.

As a reader and writer I always faced given assignments with the intent of doing exceptional jobs and take a sense of pride in my work to complete my tasks. As a reader, I will bore myself through out an entire book and realize I didn 't understand a single thing. Although as a writer, I can go on for so long losing myself on a topic because it feels more interactive. Reflecting on my experiences as a reader and writer have been very bold, I never really found a joy or an interest to become the exceptional student who stands out amongst others because, I always felt ok with myself and my results with the way I did things.

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.

My mother, would read to me Dr. Seuss. I recall her telling me about Sam I am, and his green eggs. I became an independent reader in kindergarten when I read Dr. Seuss's One Fish, Two Fish. While its 63 pages may not seem hard in retrospect, at the time I felt a great sense of accomplishment in doing that, because it was the first novel that I had read entirely on my own. The books I liked to read as an adolescent were primarily non-fiction books. It was always related to history. Whether it be the history of The Minnesota Twins or about the Titanic, I was always reading about history. I still read a fair deal of fiction. Our school took part in the accelerated reader program and I would always read the fiction books; Lemony Snicket etc; because they had the highest point values. Reading in classes has never been much of a challenge to me. Some of my favorite moments in school have been the moments where I was exposed to Hemingway and when I was exposed to

When I was little, I would enjoy reading books such as, Henry and Mudge, and also Captain Underpants. These were some books that I was able to understand because of them being less rigorous. As a grade school student, I was never the strongest reader. It was hard for me to understand and comprehend the material I was learning. In class, we would read short chapter books together as a class and take brief quizzes on the chapter then after. I believe the turning point to becoming a substantial reader happened when my family and I moved. I attended a different school in a different school district going entering fourth grade. Switching schools I think has benefitted me, and I think it was good I was still little because I felt as if the new school district I was in, District 303 in Illinois, give students more assistance and one-on-one to help us become stronger readers. When my class would start reading in class, I would step out of class and meet a

I started to read at a young age and it never really came that easy to me. I struggled a little bit more with understanding some words and even some questions I couldn’t answer them because when I would read and even till this day I start to read, but I don’t fully pay attention to my reading. It’s not because I don’t like reading I enjoy it. When I was in the fifth grade I joined “Book Club” it was year round and a few times a week. Once I was in the book club I enjoyed reading more and because it was fun either the people or myself taking turns and doing voices for the characters. I kept reading for a few more years and then I stopped for a couple of years. I got back into reading when I was a sophomore and a big part of it was because that

My personal history as a reader started when I was in kindergarten. There were two people who helped me learn to read, which were my mother and my kindergarten teacher. They helped me learn to read by first knowing Basic English words. My best experience while reading was understanding different perspectives and feeling what the character is feeling through the authors’ descriptive writing. When I read any stories I like to put myself in the characters perspective to experience the book better. I never had a worst experience reading except when I was little and it was hard for me to pronounce certain words.

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

See i always read, i learned to read when i was in kindergarten, And to write i learned in first grade, but i never really fully enjoyed either of them or cared for them. I started to get a small interest back in middle school when the libraries started to check out comic books. I would spend hours reading comics even if it really isn't considered a real book. I read a whole series in less than 3 or 4 days. Well Time passed and that interest faded, and reading never interested me again, until i met one specific person.

Growing up I never really liked reading. I always found it boring or a waste of time but as I got older I realized that reading is very fundamental. As a kid my mother would read the bible to me almost every night. What I really enjoyed reading were song lyrics. Music has been apart of my life since I was in the first grade. It started off with childhood television show introductions like SpongeBob, codename kids next door and also other television shows like class of 3000 and drake and josh. One of my favorite

My first experience with reading is when my mom taught me, I was about 4 and I read Junie B Jones. It was very hard for me to remember what letters made what sounds at first, but after that I was reading at a fluent pace (For a 4 year old). About a year later I was in kindergarten and they were teaching us how to read, I felt like God because I was better than everyone else because I already knew how until this one kid told me he knew how to. Then it became a competition to see who could read the fastest. I lost. Fast forward to about 4th grade, we had a very strict teacher who believed in older ways of teaching. That included yelling and being mean. Evidently she’s still one of the best teachers I’ve ever had. She would make us read a book every 2 weeks and write a book report on it. A lot of kids didn’t do better in English because of this style of teaching, but I think it helped me become a much better reader. I always remember getting upset because a kid couldn’t fluently read a book out loud to the class. I always thought I could do it better than everyone else, but it turns out I was just a really snobby impatient 10 year old. In 5th grade I read the first book I was genuinely interested in, it was called the maze runner. After that I realized books can be a lot more than walls of text. I mean they’re still mostly walls of text, though because the only 2 books I really liked were the hunger games and maze runner, and trust me. Throughout 6th grade I LOOKED for good

I have always had a passion for reading even as a baby I liked to be read to. I have my wonderful mother, and older brother, to thank for introducing the concept to me at such a young age. My mother volunteered in my brother’s kindergarten class and brought me along when I was around two and a half. Seeing older kids learning to read made me want to learn too, I worked with my mother and learned how to read short books by myself, around the same time. I progressed through my time in preschool working above my class’ reading level and finally at age four I finished my first chapter book, Junie B. Jones and the Yucky Blucky Fruitcake. Skipping ahead I began reading everyday as much as I could. Trips to the library became weekly, and trips to the school library became daily. I read aloud to my cat at night, and then at recess during the day. I finished book after book, loving them all, but in the third grade I finally read the one book I’ve ever ha

The beginning of my interest in reading goes way back, although I don’t have any defining “aha!” moment, where I all of a sudden enjoyed reading books. There were always books around when I was growing up, if I was at my grandparents house it was the books they kept from their youth; classics like Treasure Island or any Hemingway book, the hard covers permanently infused with dust; plenty of History books, particularly World War II history; and the children’s books I always received as presents when I visited. My mom also read a lot, but more modern books, like supernatural or light horror books, nothing too difficult (or scary). I spent a lot of time reading magazines, mostly Video Game (note: spent more time creating stories off the