Reading Writing : Reading And Writing

I didn’t always enjoy reading and writing.Yes, I know what you’re thinking: what an ignorant. Well, it’s true. My relationship with reading and writing has been an emotional rollercoaster, with soaring highs and disheartening lows.In fact, I started working on essays until I was sixteen. However, by some chance it has led me to where I’m at today, and for that I am most happy.

At the age of five, I learned of my struggle concerning the topic of writing. In kindergarten, this wasn't too much of a problem (because of the lack of writing-based assignments). Once I got into first grade, where the level of difficulty increased, I learned that I was not a good writer. When I say I wasn't a good writer, I do not only mean my writing quality, I also mean the physical act of writing. To get over this, I was required to practice writing at home, along with being given extra/specialized homework. With all of this help, I learned to be better at handling my writing

In elementary school, I loved to read. Writing was not a big deal either due to the fact that we did not have to write four page essays. It was in first grade when I started to like reading. Reading has just been freshly introduced, considering we had only completed one year of school. My teacher always read to us and I wanted to read those books as well. Throughout elementary school I started to read Junie B. Jones books, which were my favorite. All of the books were about a first grade girl and her different adventures. I had always enjoyed reading those books. Each book had a different topic which I would always relate to in some way. Although I liked to read, I did struggle with reading comprehension which made me dislike writing as well. I hated having to read and then go and write about it. To this day, I still do not like reading comprehension, but my feelings toward reading and writing have changed.

For some people reading can be a difficult experience. For me it became difficult at the age of five years old. I really wasn’t an educational kid I was more of a kid that like to play with my toys and four brothers, whenever they came home from school. As I grew up reading became a little more difficult for me to master, at times in my middle school my teacher Mr.G would test us on how well and skilled we were at reading. Every day when it was time for him to test me I would get nervous and started to stubble on words and fail my test. By the time I was in high school I learned how to take my time and read, which has help me to progress my reading skills over the years.

When you’re young school is all about popularity and friends, but with a lack of word knowledge reading in class, especially out loud can destroy your credibility. I came from a blue collar background and none of my family ever attempted college, so I figured college wasn’t that important. During school, if it wasn’t interesting I didn’t want to participate or take the time to improve myself. Reading and writing was just another uninteresting, check the block, fake it till you make it, subject for me. I was a slow reader and often times I had to ask the teacher what a particular word meant. What was even worse was having to read out loud in class. Again, the fact that I was a slow reader and I often times mispronounced words caused me to be the subject of reticule and embarrassment. I started to hate reading because I couldn’t do it as well as the other kids; this continued from elementary

I struggled with reading as a child, my least favorite subjects. I was held back in the first grade, because, I couldn’t read as proficiently as my classmates and I believe this resulted in a dislike for reading in general. Lucky for me, my family always encouraged me to do my best, even if it

As a child, I never particularly liked school. I recall in elementary school, I always dreaded reading time the most. I would see all the students in the class pulling out their “Magic Tree House” books and sitting back spending time practicing their reading. I didn’t really understand why during this time I was pulled out of class to read aloud with a small group. I have always had a harder time reading and writing than most of my peers. As a young child, I was told that some people just have to try a little harder, and I always was always one of “those people”. When it came time for reading homework I would get assignments that were should have taken 30 minutes at night. It usually involved reading a section out loud to one of my parents and having them sign off that

Most people I know have a love or hate relationship with reading and writing, depending on their upbringing and experiences with each. Our world revolves around college and getting a degree in order to go into the real world to get a job. The real world can be described as paying your own bills and living out on your own. We get a job to make money, which is what most of us love to make. Parents always push their kids at a younger age to start reading so when they get older their reading skills will already be well developed. If these kids hated reading in the early stages of their life, like I did, they will soon come to realize that reading is very important. I went through a long process of hating writing, then having to learn how to love it. Many people have been in the same foot steps as myself.

As a young student, when my teachers first introduced reading and writing me, I used to doubt myself and think of how much of a waste of time it is. I felt stupid in comparison to my peers and also felt insecure that I was unable to be as qualified as them. As soon as I got assigned a book to read in elementary school or even middle school, the first thing I would do is either be looking up the chapter summaries on Spark Notes or to not do anything. I would receive poor grades in my english courses, thinking how is was all a waste of time and I wouldn't benefit anything from learning or even paying the smallest bit of attention. It was not until my freshman year of high school that I was able to find my interest in the various topics in which reading and writing had to offer me.

Reading and writing are parallel processes with similar cognitive strategies. Because of the connection between thought and language, reading and writing should be incorporated into all content to enhance students' skills in thinking and learning. Reading is a process of stages in which a reader will; read, explore, and reflect on the text they are reading. The writing process is similar to the reading process, including various activities involving students gathering and organizing their ideas, writing a rough draft, revising and editing the draft, and, finally, publishing the writing. The Common Core State Standards’ main focus is on reading and writing. The Standards address learning to read, reading stories, and nonfiction texts, and writing texts of a wide-range of categories.

In my elementary school days, I learned how to say my ABC’s, how to write, and how to read. Learning my abc’s was fairly easy to me. It was only easy because of the catchy song that my teacher, Ms. Jones, made the class sing in kindergarten. She made us sing the ABC song every other day until my classmates and I knew it. Then later, on in first and second grades, I started to learn how to read and write. My teacher for both first and second grade, Ms. Durham would make my class read out loud the spelling words for that week and encourage us to read at home. I felt like the reading at home actually did help, by making it easier to read at school.Then the few more years that I had in elementary school I was reinforced the writing and reading process. The last years, I learned how to read bigger paragraphs and write paragraphs. I also learned how to actually converse with a person because I already knew some words from my learning process through elementary school. I felt that I did way better at reading then when it came to writing. Writing came with

In today 's education, students are expected to read and understand complex texts, read higher level informational texts, expand their academic vocabulary and communicate their reading and learning abilities through writing, in order to meet the Common Core Standards (Buehl, 2014). Researchers indicate that comprehension occurs when a reader engages with the text by creating meaning from what he or she is reading (Buehl, 2014). Four conditions that determine what meaning a reader will construct are, the readers, the text, the task, and the context. These four conditions play a significant role in helping students create meaning from a text, while also helping students meet the Common Core literacy standards (Buehl, 2014).

I was in first grade when I first fell in love with the idea of reading. It all started with a teacher who left an everlasting impression in my head and on my heart. Her name, was Mrs. Sullivan. This teacher was not a reading or writing teacher, but in fact, the elementary Spanish teacher. She made me fall in love with reading by opening up a whole new world for me and she made me see language and culture in a different way. My favorite part of her class was listening to her read a series of books called, Skippy Jon Jones. Although, I am not completely sure on what the books were about, I do know that they changed my perspective on books for me. Those books would grab my attention and brighten up my day in a way that most people could not

Are reading and writing connected? Reading and writing have always been strong elements, in our lives, studies have shown that reading affects writing and vise-versa. Stephen King said, “If you could put together a model car or assemble a piece of furniture from directions you could write a sentence”. He states the importance of two powerful elements, reading and writing, and by putting them together we could make something out of them. I can come to terms with the fact that reading and writing are the key elects to many opportunities although it has not always been easy to convey. Reading and writing together are both the path to improving our vocabulary and expanding of our knowledge, even though certain people will argue differently, and say that only one (reading or writing) of them is the key element.

As I became a teacher, I realized that the majority of my reading struggles could have been solved with a little dose of reading and quality time communicating with classmates. I had strong family values and was taught to respect adults including teachers. Getting into trouble or acting inappropriate was not the way I thought anyone should be. I did not understand why students gave teachers behavioral challenges. Since I did not get into trouble, I also did not want to bother a teacher, so I did not ask too many questions even though I should have. When I was in school, we had a teacher-directed curriculum, so I learned only to depend on myself. I was not taught how to love reading, only that it was a chore. More importantly, my parents always wanted me to do well but never inquired with teachers or checked my grades. Without this supervision, I became lazy and did not progress. Collectively, these ways of learning hindered my learning potential.