There are many actions, characteristics, and goals that are set throughout life that help people become literate in something, whether it is in a sport, a school subject, or a hobby. Recognizing any strengths or weaknesses and setting out to make them better are also a large part in one’s journey to becoming who they are today. Subjects such as language arts are especially helpful when doing this and help bring out the voices of writers and readers, young and old. For me, the activities and decisions I have made up to this point, including reading and writing, have made me the person that I am today. Reflecting on this and my personality, strengths, and weaknesses have also contributed to my growth over the years and have pushed me …show more content…
Writing is something that comes naturally to me. I am a creative person and can use my ideas to easily write an essay or narrative and make my thoughts and points clear. I can also use my creativity to make a sentence or piece of evidence flow with the rest of my writing piece. In addition, I am always looking for new ways to make my writing better and I am driven to do so. My strengths in writing are especially shown when writing a fiction or realistic fiction story where I can make up my own characters and my own plot, even if I am instructed to follow a specific guideline or prompt. It is easier for me because I can visualize how I want a story to turn out and how the characters react to certain points in the plot. However, essays are a little harder for me. I can convey my ideas and evidence easily, but creating conclusions and creating a strong thesis is a challenge for me. So, I would like to work on making my conclusions and thesis statements stronger so that I can be even better at writing essays. Achieving this would ultimately make me a better writer overall and would even benefit other types of essays or stories I may have to write in the future. Lastly, one other activity I am literate in is reading. Reading has been something I have been exceptional at since I was very young, and my family definitely had a considerably large influence on this. For instance, when I was less than 1 year old my mother would read books to me, and I ended up
In all honesty, I don't remember a lot about becoming literate. I didn't have a special moment or time when I knew that reading or writing going to take me somewhere. According to my mom she started to read to me when I was one, so there wasn't anything that could've excelled me much farther before going into kindergarten. One of the requirements in elementary school was to read every night which I believe was an important factor of me improving my literacy. Reading and writing used to me excite me because I would immerse myself into a book or write a whole new universe on a page. I made reading and writing something personal to me. I now realize that every book and every piece of writing can be worthwhile in one way or another.
During most my high school career, I had to read books for English class. Although most of the time i did not care to read books for school, they helped me expand my vocabulary and improve my writing skills. The books also helped me realize how difficult writing is and how many meanings the writing can have. My least enjoyable reading experience was when I had to read Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The book was very confusing and difficult to understand. Even though this poor reading experience helped me to improve as a reader, it encouraged me to read difficult
Becoming literate opens the doors to more educational and employment opportunities. In our increasingly complex and rapidly changing technological world, it is essential that individuals
Before starting school, I incapable to write or speak English at all. Because English is my second language I had a hard time understanding how to read and write in English. My parents and older siblings would often teach me the basics of having to know my numbers, ABCs, and by making me memorizing saying simple sentences and questions. English is everyone in my family's second language and because we did not grow up learning how to speak, read, and write in English which made it difficult for me when school started.
Like many of us, my literacy began before I was even literate. This inspired me to enjoy literacy as much as I could at the time. During this period of my life, I simply was
Where to begin? Literacy has been in invaluable part of my everyday life since I was a child. Whether public speaking, writing or reading; I can say that all three of these areas have been vital parts of my life that have been developed as time went on. However I did not accomplish this alone. Whenever there was writers block I always managed to find a source of inspiration. There were teachers, friends, and family who were always willing and able to guide me and motivate me to accomplish my goals. Throughout everything I can truly say I am glad that I have made it to today.
four, my grandmother began teaching me the basics of reading and how to write the alphabet. The hours spent working with my grandmother influenced the love I have for literature. Although I have a passion for reading and writing, I feel this passion slowly fading with age. As I get older, I realize that reading does not seem as enjoyable as it used to be for me. Reading and writing has influenced my life in a thankful, a joyful, but also a slightly negative way.
For me, this is the hard part. Starting out an essay that focuses on one topic, or something that I’m not particularly fond of. That’s one thing I really dislike about English, being limited on the topic, or being assigned a topic that you have to write specifically about. Writing is somewhat boring to me, and I don’t exactly know why, but starting it out feels almost impossible to me a lot of the time. Sometimes, writing is fun for me though. Once in a while when I write, I feel like I’m alone, everything drowns out, like smells and sounds. But when writing things, I prefer to try to challenge myself and continuously try to improve myself, the same with reading.
I am not going to lie; writing does not come very easy to me and often have a hard time figuring out how to start a paper. However, I am ready for you to get to know me better.
Is writing important ? My answer would be yes, it is important. I believe that spelling is important, the reason is show how professional you are as a person to be able to communicate with other people correctly without any misinterpretation. I have collected sources to address my reason why and will be using my personal opinion on it.
Is cursive really that important? I'd like to think so, but at times goes on it appers to be headed towards extiction, like so many other seemingly timeless things. Like many things though technology is taking its place. Are we just making life easier on our selves or are we getting rid of a good thing?
Being literate has been, let’s just say an uphill battle for me. I say “battle” in the most literal sense possible because I am dyslexic. Dyslexiais defined as a learning disability that impairs a person 's fluency or comprehension accuracy in being able to read. With that being said, reading has not been easy for me and as a result is not my favorite thing to do. This is a major part of my relationship with literacy, and life in general. Having dyslexia has made me realize how much of a role language and literacy plays in everyday life.
To be literate, is not just the ability to read and write. It is something I think more than that. It involves a very intricate mechanics of linguistics, but eventually form a sophisticated yet beautiful form of language usage. I was not born with literacy sense. I gained reading skills from bedtime stories by my parents and eventually learned formally to read and write at school. From that, I was able to mold my style of writing with the help of the teachers. I believe that most of us have been through similar experience as I did gaining literacy. Even with all the necessary literacy skills I gained from school and at home, I was still wondering the reason behind all the hard work to read and write. Until one day, I was sent to a leadership camp as a representative from my school. From that camp, I knew that all of my gained literacy have now make sense to me because it has change my perspective of the world through literacy.
My literacy story begins, like most peoples, with my mom reading me stories before bed. I remember these being some of the happiest literacy moments of my life. Reading books like A Wocket in my Pocket and If You Give a Mouse a Cookie made me really love reading. when I was young I would even go to bed early so that I could have extra time to read. Because of how much I read, I picked up on reading and writing very quickly. By the time I started kindergarten, I could read and write better than anyone else in my class. This early success in reading made me enjoy books even more. But before I knew it, that all would change when I
Language is an essential thing in someone’s daily life. Whether it is written or spoken it is our main way of communication with one another because of this someone is taught how to write and speak properly. Speaking is easier than writing because it is something someone has been doing since they were child. This is different for writing. A person is taught how to write when he or she goes to school and improves over time. I started writing papers after I came to the United States in 2014. I have improved on my writing skills since then. English 101 has helped me to write as a college level student. I am now able to organize essays and be able to write them in well structured way.