Reading And Writing Are Two Pillars Of The Education And Learning Process Of Human Being

I have been reading and writing for most of my life. It all started way back in middle school. Most of my writings ended up being persuasive or narrative pieces. I would just sit down and pour out stories about myself onto pages like I was talking to a huge audience that was, for some reason, super interested in me. I remember in 7th grade I loved writing because I just got to talk about my life and all the things that happened to me. Whether the story was embarrassing to me, or were big milestones in my 13-year old life I always had a place to share a piece of me. If I couldn’t think of anything, I could just make something up and no one would know it wasn’t true. I would write about my crazy family and all the dysfunctional vacations we would go on and it didn’t even feel like an assignment to me. It was easy. It was a place that I could really express myself and I loved it. This sparked an interest in literature and writing that was carried out through my future in different forms. Components of all the writing and reading experiences I had, still show up in my writing style now, even if I’m not intentionally adding them in. But I’ll talk about that later, now for the next stop on my writing journey.

Reading and writing has never come very easy to me. There have been a lot of factors that hinder me from being able to read and write well. English has always been my least favorite class during elementary school throughout high school and it still is now in college. I can count the number of books that I’ve actually been able to completely finish reading on one hands. In school, whenever we were assigned to read however many chapters of a book at night, I would just look up the spark notes for that chapter because I have such a hard time reading. By the way, reading the spark notes does not work as a substitute for reading the book instead.

“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are,” (Cooley). Throughout our lives, reading has impacted us in many ways. Often times books give people different perspectives on their lives. People with high stress levels often find comfort in reading books to take their mind off of their concerns. Sometimes, people just need to take a step back from their lives and relax for a while; therefore, reading is a great tool. In fact, all kinds of books have also helped me become a better writer. There are many different books that have impacted me over the years.

Throughout all of time, literature has played an important role in people’s lives. Books are more than just stories to laugh at, cry with, or fall asleep to, but books can teach. Books can teach a person a simple task such as baking cookies or an extremely complex one such as solving for the derivative of a trigonometric path and its parabolic motion. Whatever the subject, whomever the reader, books can teach people many lessons. One of the most important lessons that a book can teach a reader is a lesson about himself, about the difficulties of life, and about living a good life. As time has passed, so has literature itself. Older books focused on historical events, fictional poetry, and important figures; however, books now have evolved to

Throughout all of time, literature has played an important role in people’s lives. Books are more than just stories to laugh at, cry with, or fall asleep to, but books can teach. Literature

Is it necessary for me to read and write? I would often ask myself this question growing up. At the grade school level, reading and writing was not something I enjoyed, and that fact has followed me into my adult life. My parents pushed me to be a successful student, but in English class, I did only what I had to get by. In recent years, now that I am 38, I have begun to see things in a different way for several reasons. Two key reasons are my career has required me to grow in this aspect, and I see the rate at which my elementary school kids are having to progress with the accelerated reading programs in schools today.

Learning how to read and write was a challenging task for me as a kid. I believe I couldn’t read until the second grade and that was embarrassing. Being a slow learner made me insecure, which hindered me from building the confidence I needed to succeed and get pass identifying with having a disability. Instead, I was enrolled into a special ed class that I had to leave my regular class to attend. During my special ed class all I could think about was how I couldn’t wait to get back to my regular class so I didn’t have to tell any of my classmate where I was. Therefore, my focus unfortunately wasn’t on learning, like it should have been!

At first glance, the poems “Birthday” by M. T. Buckley and “The Secret Life of Books” by Stephen Edgar may seem completely unrelated in every aspect. “Birthday” is a poem about how being born is comparable to being in war, while “The Secret Life of Books” is about the nature and power of reading and literature. But once broken down to their bits and pieces, the poems are in fact very much alike. Although there are differences within both, the authors use significant titles, tone, and extended metaphors throughout the poems that make the two poems similar.

Books have been in our lives since we were just in pre-k or kindergarten for some. Books are now something we do either for leisure or because we have to. The reading of books has changed from since we were little because they are now more electronical and can take away from the experience of a real book. It still matters how you read because even though books do the same thing, the distractionless and temptatious environment can hinder the books wonders. Books aren’t just for nothing but are used to teach, to learn from, to enjoy, and to become better from.

Since the primordial era of man’s inception, there has been an inherent ambition that pushes humans to learn and grow exponentially. The most potent way of facilitating this kind of growth has been discovered through the advent of literature, allowing for a steady record of history and an abundant source of information concerning all aspects of humanity’s existence. Many challenges come with this level of power that the written word provides: several people throughout history have suffered ravenous pandemics like the Black Plague, bore all-consuming poverty, and have been scathed if not killed by the brutality of war. These maladies coupled with destructive events like book burnings and mass censorship have done a significant amount to hamper

It is a proven fact through the ages that knowledge is power, and the way to achieve unbridled knowledge is to be informed by having the ability to read and comprehend text. In addition, the ability to comprehend text coupled with one’s ability to express thoughts through written form is a powerful combination. Ippolito, Steele, & Samson (2008). puts it this way, if knowledge is power, then literacy opens the door to the whole kingdom. Ippolito et al. (2008) goes on to point out that the ability to have access to book learning was often limited to a privileged minority and this practice continues in different areas of the world today. This day and age where society is driven by digital technology, the availability of written text is so much

Since the dawn of time, humans have learned to communicate through certain writings or stories. Many individuals have benefitted from the gift of reading that we take so much for granted these days. The hunger for knowledge is a basic human instinct that has took place and influenced many people's lives, including mine. But I ask myself these questions. Is knowledge reading, or is reading knowledge? Can reading influence your life choices? Well here I am, thinking back on my childhood clouded by parental disputes and my adventure as a reader and how it has influenced my life today. My reading experiences as a child up to the present have had a great influence on me. My goal in this paper is to take you through a journey of my experiences

Literacy is the cornerstone to all learning; it is imperative to future academic success. (Tracey and Morrow, 2012). Due to the significance of literacy instruction, there are a myriad of ways to teach literacy. Literacy is a complex subject, honing in on balancing reading, writing, speaking, and listening. As a result of the complexity of literacy instruction, we arrive at the age-old debate of what is the best literacy instruction. My philosophy of literacy instruction centralizes around the Whole Language Theory and Balanced Literacy; however, I also blend in additional theories/approaches to teach effective literacy.

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.

The correlation between reading and knowledge defines the supposed purpose and effect of reading. The opportunity to read has always accompanied people of different ages and provided a reliable source of knowledge. With reading, one will be able to grasp and originate new concepts, comprehend ideas, and pass our own thinking limits. Reading opens a new world of thoughts and imagination. Books never leave one’s side, and with the proper reading skills, he or she will be able to unlock a set of newly found emotions carefully woven into the words. Reading can sometimes be time consuming, but also become as relaxing as a walk along the shore. It has the purpose to nurture minds to expand pas the limitations to imagination