Reading And Reading : The Importance Of Reading

There are many important skills that students must learn in school. One important skill would be how to read and write and the other would be how to think critically. These two skills are very important in different ways. However, they are both important skills that will help individuals throughout different times in their lives. The skill of reading and writing can open a door into a new world, a world filled with words. Critical thinking can help with having to make life changing decisions or it can help find a solution to a difficult issue. The skills reading and writing and critical thinking are all important skills in their own way, and they are both important during many aspects of life.

There is nothing that has had a bigger impact on my life than learning to read and write. I remember being in elementary school and the teacher emphasizing that reading and writing is fundamental. I didn’t know what that meant or why she kept repeating that over again. As I started to grow older I slowly understood a part of it. It began by observing my father every morning, he would buy the Spanish newspaper and would read it. One day I asked him if I could read the newspaper, I knew I couldn’t read Spanish but I was curious. I recall breaking up the words and putting them together like I learned in school. To only realize that Spanish is phonetically written. From there I learned that there is an important connection in Spanish and English that is important just as reading and writing in my life. There are many types of outcomes that I gained from learning to read and write. Such as being able to expand my knowledge, observing how communication is interacted in reading and writing, and appreciating the creativity of it.

If you couldn’t read or write, how would you tackle your daily life? Being literate is a crucial part of everyone’s life; reading and writing are essential for a person’s success. Every single day, it’s used, whether it’s for an Advanced Placement Language class or reading a billboard as you’re driving past. As a child, I grew up reading on a daily basis and I believe that I am as successful as I am on behalf of it. Countless memories have been created, thanks to the multiple books that have been read and the umpteen amount of papers that I’ve written. Throughout the numerous years of my education, my teachers and parents left a long lasting impact on my reading and writing skills.

Growing up I was never a big fan of reading, but as I got older I noticed books are very essential. They are filled with adventures and lessons that only exist in wildest imagination. Without books many of us wouldn't know half the things we know today. Books teaches us math , science, history ,and even how to use a computer or how to play a sport. With so many different genres to choose from and millions of books to read , the task of reading can never get boring, especially when you're actively reading

As music enamored my brother more and more, I lost my reading partner little by little. As I realized this I slowly started to lose interest in my personal reading time as well, but I still did not turn my attention to my assigned readings as I saw all homework as a waste of time by that point in my academic career. Then I got my phone. At the start, I managed to split my time evenly between my books and phone, but slowly the notifications got to me. I stopped picking up my

Growing up as a kid, I love to read, I almost always have a book in my hands. Every year during school I was in the principal's club. Most of the books I was reading, even in the second grade, were meant for middle or high school kids. I could read a two hundred page book in one day if I put my mind to it. The longest book I had ever read was around eight-hundred pages, and that took me less than a week. Then when I got into sixth grade I was not reading as much, I did not have any motivation to read. The motivation finally came back my eighth-grade year

In 5th grade, I remember that our visiting times to the school library decreased and so did my urge to read. I almost forgot how it felt to be reading books of my own choice. The only time when I would read was when my teacher would assign a specific chapter to read of the book Wonder, and a worksheet. Filling out a worksheet after reading or while reading is like a punishment, the sheet is not letting me enjoy what i’m reading. Instead it’s made me a working machine, trying to pick out small details throughout the book. As I recall, I stopped reading for my own pleasure at that time. However the next year, 6th grade, in Language Arts we would visit the library once a month, or I would visit during the quiet S.T.A.R time to pick out a book. I picked off where I left off in my reading journey and starting reading again! I realized then, my interest in book genres had changed. Why, I was more interested in books taking place in middle school/high school, meaning that I enjoyed realistic fiction. Continuing on reading, I transitioned into 7th grade. In 7th grade I kept on reading more and more, I even kept a chart of the books I read! My Language Arts teacher also read along with the class with her own books and also encouraged me. Infact, both of my middle school Language Arts teachers encouraged me to keep reading. They would be surprised every time I announced that I finished a book, that made me want to surprise them more. Overall, this time period with my teachers helped me boost my reading

Stephen King wrote, “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” The magic of reading came to mind when my television stopped working. I would pick up a book that was just sitting there, and I read it. When the TV was repaired, I read the rest of the book. That led to a second book. Still, as I was growing up, I was not a reader, and even today, I find other distractions instead.

I will restate that yes I do not have the passion or enjoy reading, but with reading being something always present in our lives this process makes it doable. Reading shouldn’t just be something we do because we have to, whether we find pleasure in it or not it should be something we retain. We don’t learn by doing nothing, we need to constantly be engaging our minds into literature or any work. This frequent jogging of the brain trains us to be more intellectual. Reading is great, but make sure you understand it. Take notes, do research, talk to others let the reading engulf your life for that time momentarily. Don’t dwell or harp on certain readings but allow it to be knowledge to our brains, making us a more well- rounded person. Reading has helped me not to be narrow minded on so many subjects: religion, culture, relationships, life. Reading has given be respect for the world our ancestors lived in, the world we live in and the world to come for our future

Reading has never been one of my strong suits. I remember in the early years of elementary school, I would be assigned to read for a certain amount of time each day—about 15-30 minutes—and I’d do it, because I knew I should, if only for the sake of knowing I really did my work. But reading didn’t interest me as a little kid; it seemed long and boring—I’m sure many relate to this. Over the years—to this day, in fact—I’ve practically only ever read books that were for a class. Of course, now I do have some interest in reading; I realize that I can learn a lot of things by reading, and there are many books in the world that are worth reading. However, I am not an active reader, and because of this, reading has always felt like a chore. Even though reading can be so enjoyable given the right book and an interest in its contents, it’s hard to read—I’m slow at it, the intimidating size of the book turns me off, and I get distracted easily. I think it’s because of my age, because I live in this time when the Internet is fresh and information is everywhere, given in snippets and RGB screens and jump-cuts. I love wasting my time in front of a screen; it’s so easy and relaxing, entertaining. But once procrastination time is over, I’m sitting at my table struggling to keep my head in the printed text. It’s a shame, really.

When I was a child, my parents always pushed me to move further in my learning. One of the ways they enforced that on me was to get me to read for at least thirty minutes to an hour every day. This may not seem like much now, but back then, I definitely had strong feelings about it. During elementary school, my parents would always take me and my siblings to the local library, and even though there were times when I wasn’t interested in reading and would count the minutes go by, I thank my parents for that reading experience. Though now that I have fit myself in a focus on mathematics and science, I still enjoy reading from my list of favorite genres that I’ve developed throughout my educational career. I never exactly thought in depth before that I had a specific preference for when it comes to reading, though as I look over to my bookshelf filled with my favorite books, I can now see the different books I have grown up with.

What do you think of when reading literacy comes to mind? There’s probably many things you could think of but to myself literacy simply means the ability to read and write. Literacy can be different for everyone and it just depends on what kind of experience you’ve had in the past. My experiences have not been to good.

Reading and writing are both important; you can’t have one without the other. They are skills that are increased constantly due to little things that most times are not noticed. Whether it is from a book to a poem, there will always be a way that it helps out your school performance. Reading and writing in general only helps absorb information, and enhance leisure or school related writing tasks. It has also made life itself so much easier because reading and writing are so beneficial for school and for life. How much you read and write today, will somehow affect your future job, family, position, or even your salary.

As a child, my interests were more focused on reading than writing. In elementary school I fell in love with books. Initially I read simple children’s books, much like everybody else in my class, but it did not take long for my passion to drive me to read more difficult writings. Fiction books quickly became a replacement for any childhood toys. Instead of blocks or stuffed animals I would ask my parents for books. Since they were aimed at young readers, they tended to be short. I found myself going through them within days, and then soon several hours. Towards the end of elementary school I was reading series like Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. I was captivated, and reading truly opened up a whole new world for me.

First, reading taught me to be patient in the different situations I happen to get myself into. Ever since I was really young I’ve enjoyed reading, it’s always been one of my favorite pastimes. Whenever I was bored or impatient for an event that was going to happen my parents would hand me a book so I would distract myself and I wouldn’t be so impatient all the time. Then I would end up being engrossed in reading that book I would forget what was happening around me and where I even was at in that moment. One could be talking to me and I wouldn’t even notice it’d be like they were talking to a tree. I would spend hours reading until someone tried really hard to snap me out of it, for I