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Why Is Writing Important To Me

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While growing up, I loved learning how to read and write. At approximately age 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.
Certainly, I will always have joy in my heart for literacy. Reading is sentimental for me. I can think back to the countless hours sitting with my grandmother learning how to sound out letters and place them together to form words. Almost every week, she would bring me a new book to read. We would read the entire book so many times that I practically had each page memorized. My favorite set of books she brought me home was “Junie B. Jones” by Barbara Park. During my second grade year, I had read every book in the collection, …show more content…

I take for granted the opportunities that are available to me through literacy each day. I feel pity for those who do not appreciate the importance of literacy. I am very thankful that my family taught me the importance of reading and writing at a very young age. It never occurred to me how important the ability to read and write is. Reading is an integral part of everyday life, and writing is an important part of communication. I never understood the importance of knowing how to recognize and write my own name until I realized that my grandfather did not know how to spell his own name. It saddens me that many people in this world do not know how to read and write. I am grateful that I am being raised in a time that the importance of literacy is stressed, and that I have the privilege to be knowledgeable in all aspects of

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