The Importance Of Reading

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.

Elementary school was easily the utmost time I spent reading. The library was full of new, captivating books I was itching to get my hands on. It was all I could do to focus in my classes when there were fantasy novels, comic books, and collections of trivia I could be studying. The biggest motivator was the establishment of A.R. points, which could be earned by taking quizzes on the contents of a book. These points could be traded for prizes such as Chinese finger traps and lava lamps. Appealing to my competitive spirit, the A.R. point system compelled me to read near constantly. To be disrupted by anything else while absorbed in a book was the most infuriating thing. My eagerness to learn reflected not only on my reading, but my writing as well. Now and then

Reading is something at almost all people do. It is a cornerstone of our modern society, that along with writing takes up a major part of our time. In college, students are expect to read and write a lot. Between reading textbooks or articles to catch up on information for class to writing out lab reports or essays or even math answers most, if not all, of what a college student has to do for class can be put in either the categories of reading or writing. That being said when it comes to unwinding a lot of what I do is either reading or writing. I love to read novels, from modern young adult to the classics, along with independent short stories found online, and subtitles on all movies. I am also an avid writer, I write short stories and novellas for fun and to relax. I have even won awards for my writing when I was in high school. Reading and writing aren’t just a cornerstone of my life they are the fondation, almost everything I love stems from literature. Still, I have to be in the right mindset to read or write certain things. I can’t just sit down and do my homework anywhere, I have to have designated spots where I work. That is why I have four places that are, with the exception of one spot, that all have a specified purpose. The chair in my dorm is for homework, the cafe in library is for reading textbooks, the gym is for podcasts, and my bed is for everything.

Everybody who learns a language needs to master reading skill beside three other skills: listening, speaking, and writing. In English language learning activity, reading skill is important to measure whether the students could understand English written forms well. The other fact that shows how important the reading skill is that many information or texts are provided in written forms compared to the spoken ones. If the students have poor reading skill, they would not understand the text even they get the information. Moreover, reading is the interaction between the reader and the writer. The reader needs to catch what the writer is trying to encode to get the correct information. Furthermore, in high school, for example, reading is the core because through reading the students can find new things to improve their pronunciation, translation ability, and other skills. Thus, those are the reasons why reading skill is important so that English teachers who teach reading should pay serious attention to this.

As I started getting older my teachers began assigning readings as homework, which I would avoid at all cost. I would ask people in class to summarize it for me or I would skim it over before class so I knew what everyone else was talking about. At the start of middle school, my friends would talk about how they could get lost into books for hours. I felt a little left out at some times because I never had anything to add to the conversation or relate to it on any personal level. I decided to try and read other books outside of school that I wasn’t forced into. I read what my friends had or were already reading so I could add to the conversation. But this just caused me to develop really bad reading habits. I would skim through each book, never really taking the time to enjoy it. When I “finished” my friends would ask me questions or talk about it, and of course I was totally lost. Causing me come to the conclusion that reading was never going to be my thing.

I lost my mom when I was young so I didn’t have her there to read to me or teach me about things or buy me books. My father was and still is in the Army National Guard and was deployed for long periods of time when I was a child. It’s like there was a void in my life and literacy has always been a temporary fill. Growing up I had always been eager to learn more and know more about random topics. I was once so into soccer that I had only read stories about soccer players for an entire school year. Another year I was so intrigued by mummies that I would search through the school library for mummy books until I begged my aunt to get me a library card to the closest library around (1 hour away). It honestly felt like my birthday every time I got to go to the city Library and choose up to 4 books of my liking and take them home.

Like most of you, I’m a voracious reader and have taught myself many things throughout my life, whether I thought of these pursuits as study or not. I began gobbling up books up before I was in Kindergarten and have continued to devour them until now, regardless of where life took me along the way.

Reading" is the process which involves looking at a series of written symbols and getting meaning from them. When we read, we use our eyes to receive written symbols (letters, punctuation marks and spaces) and we use our brain to convert them into words, sentences and paragraphs that communicate something to us.

Not everyone enjoys reading, some people hate it and other love it, because they feel as if they’re the people in the book going through whatever the book says. Another thing is that not everyone has compassion, they grew up with a “cold heart.” Meaning they never had any type of emotion or feelings towards other people who are experiencing a bad time. But with the help of literature some people start to understand and are able to comprehend what others feel and how they are able to help, it makes people grow a heart.

Reading and Writing are essential aspects of life that influence a person’s character and outlook. For all ages, reading and writing expands the mind and exposes the idea to experience new opportunities. Studies show that youthful minds absorb the most information, so learning major concepts are best at earlier ages. My first memories that I can recall of learning how to read and write began at the early age of five years old. Both subjects were such fascinating concepts at the time and my curiosity craved to know more. Fortunately, now that I’ve grown older, reading and writing remain valuable to me because of the circumstances that occurred throughout my life.

When I was a baby the first words I read and wrote were easy, for example; dog, cat, mom and dad. At first I did not know the purpose of these simple words or why my teachers were so stubborn on teaching me even more words. As I got older I realized that those simple words turned into making sentences, and I was able to communicate by reading and writing with other people. Reading and writing are such essential tools for everyone’s communication skills and I believe it is important to have a good foundation. As much as it is important, as I got older I realized that it wasn’t much fun to read and write as it once was. The books got longer and harder, and the essays got boring and trickier. As a 7th grader my wish is to hangout with my friends and do simple tasks at school, not writing longs essays or reading textbooks. I don’t like reading and writing because is a lot of work, I loose concentration easily and honestly, id rather hang out with my friends. In a perfect world those things would be possible, but in the real world I must know good reading in writing skills because it is essential for everyone and everything. Writing and writing affect my life drastically because I need it for texting, reading fun books and street signs.

If you ponder about it, the majority of people wouldn’t make it in this world we live in today if they didn’t understand the concepts of reading and writing. After all, reading is everywhere, far and wide, and is a very important, as well as a necessary part of the human life. Daily lifestyle includes reading road signs, magazines, billboards, texts, newspapers, emails, books, labels and so on. Over the years of learning how to properly read and write, my family and teachers massively impacted the techniques that I use today by reading me books that have accounted for enormous parts of my life. They provided me with unforgettable memories that I am thankful for today as I use the advice I have taken from them throughout my life.

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.

Undoubtedly, reading and writing are two of the most useful and important things that people can learn. Through reading and writing, we can feel or transmit our knowledge, thoughts, and feelings. In fact, reading and writing we can learn to educate ourselves and even entertain ourselves through books, magazines, newspapers, etc. However, learning to read and write is not easy. I have had one main problem in my English class with reading. Which, I already overcame. In fact, it helped me to understand the importance that reading has through my first three essays and, to grown to be a better reader and writer.

Growing up throughout the years it goes from teachers reading books to your class to books getting assigned to you to read independantly. Most of the books assigned would be so boring and pointless to read. Normally when I got assigned a book I would just read through it trying to comprehend some parts of it. I never tried to enjoy it or show an interest in the book. Reading to me was not something I ever enjoyed doing. I did not like reading for pleasure and for class assignments because I did not think there was a point. When I was reading independent books for pleasure, or an assignment I would think to myself, “Why, why, why… do we need to do this.” Reading to me seemed like a waste of time, until my senior