Write An Essay About This Year As A Reader

As a kid, I was always really shy and spent much of my free time reading books. In 4th grade, the teacher required that each month we read a certain amount of short stories or books and write a summary for each. I always completed the minimum requirement and read plenty extra books. Throughout the year, I always had the most stars next to my name for top reader, not because I wanted to collect as many gold stars as I could, but because I really enjoyed reading. I had my eyes glued to a book even when I was at home. I

The possibility of year round schools has been a hot debate topic for quite some time. The question is, is the idea of year round schools acceptable considering all the potential drawbacks? Year round schooling can be disruptive to both the family of the students and the teachers themselves, it can be too costly for a large group of people, and year round schools do not provide the same opportunity for learning as the traditional school year does. For several reasons, the traditional school year, which runs for ten months instead of eleven, is more beneficial in comparison to year round schooling.

My reading experience has had a lot of ups and downs. I was never an over-achiever in my language arts or reading classes, which has affected my passion for reading. A lot of my opinions about reading have changed even just since this summer. I don’t have any recollection of reading before kindergarten except for learning the letters. Kindergarten was a struggle for me, but after kindergarten to third grade. In third grade I peaked and absolutely loved reading and writing, but it faded in middle school and has been fading since then for me.

Going through life we learn and grow differently in literacy. As a young child, I started off my reading by looking at pictures and then grew into more difficult literacy. Trying to comprehend how much reading would impact my life in the future when I was little, was something I never understood. Being in high school now, I have learned how much reading and writing would impact me and how many opportunities it could provide for me. Since I was that child who could have cared less about my literacy, I soon became the child that got so worked up if I wasn’t as superb as others in reading. Throughout my childhood, my literacy has had its ups and downs, but now being in high school I have worked hard in my literacy which has allowed me to take

If I could describe my relationship with reading and writing it would most likely have to be, improving. Of course I would assume the same happens to all students that their reading and writing skills improve as they continue with their education. For me reading has been a passion, so my reading skills are pretty advanced and I can say I am able to read well. In my case, being a child of two Hispanic parents, I do have a slight accent that can get in the way and make my reading a bit rough. Usually it is not so bad, only on certain words that either I do not know how to properly pronounce or certain letters that my accent acts as a physical barrier where I have to sound it out more carefully or work around my accent. While that is the #1 major setback I have during reading. Even with that setback I can still say that I am confident in my reading skills, reading at a well speed, improving, reading various books all that combined allows to be able to read almost anything. What I do enjoy about reading is that I see it being able to bring myself into that world that the author is writing about or to envision the story they’re telling as a movie. I like the idea of just sitting back or laying down with a good book for hours and getting deep into whatever I am reading. Personally once I pick up a good book it is usually hard for me to put it down without the paranoia of not knowing how it ends will eat me up and I usually finish a book within a few days.

Gallahan’s article grants the reader with an article containing the advantages and disadvantages of a year round school. In the beginning of the article Gallahan discusses that year round school is always a debate the moment it is brought up. While the author mentions that the article is about the two different sides of year round school, it is mainly focused on the advantages. For example, “Schools utilizing a year-round calendar are experiencing benefits of remediation and retention as other traditional calendar schools are reaping the benefits of calendar unity and less funding commitment” (Gallahan). This intext citation displays that even though her article addresses the debate, her voice of reason is directed more towards the advantages.

My areas for improvement as a reader are speed and analyzing a content. It takes me a great amount of time to finish a book, since I tend to stop and reread the lines if I do not understand what it means. Also, I can not analyze a literature very well or notice the message that author implied in the story. Because I do not have as much experience as other people in analyzing contexts in classical literature, it takes more time for me to fully understand how each character is feeling or thinking.

I’ve always been an avid reader. When I was in elementary school, my mother would take my brother and I to the library every week to pick out books. I would take the books to school and read them all in one day. I loved reading so much that my teachers would call home and tell my parents that I was reading my library books during class instead of my textbooks. Reading has always been a major part of my life. I used to aspire to become an author. I even wanted to become an editor at one point. I used to make daily household newspapers and magazines for my entire family to read and enjoy. My strong love for reading certainly came in handy during my freshman year of high school.

Year One: Year one is critical to creating a chapter with long-term sustainability at Illinois State. During this time, we are building and developing the chapter by focusing on a strong sisterhood and its connection to the ISU campus and the Bloomington-Normal community. To do so, the New Chapter Support Team will work with the newly elected chapter officers to plan sisterhood events that promote unity and friendship. In addition to creating lasting bonds among members, the chapter will begin creating partnerships on campus and in the community. Kappa proposes the implementation of Panhellenic mentors. Panhellenic leaders would serve

First off, I don’t agree with my reading score because it is too low and I know I read and have a better knowledge than an 8th grader which upsets me, but I think I know why i got this score. I earned it more than likely because when I took the test, I didn’t pay much attention and care about it so I just guessed answers and didn’t put my whole thinking into the test. I’m not going to be despondent with the grade because I know I can read better. In retrospect I know if I tried my complete best I’d get a higher level score. Furthermore, depending, on the book I’m reading I tend to like reading if it has my complete interest. I don’t think I need to improve my reading abilities because I’m already a solid reader, because I feel accomplished

My teacher, classmates, and I would read the Magic Tree House series aloud in class. That series definitely influenced my enthusiasm towards reading at a young age because it made me believe that if I read a book, I would become a character. Surprisingly, my arm never became tired after constantly raising my hand all day to volunteer to read out loud. I was eager to present my reading skills to the entire class. I began reading more difficult books as I went into the fourth grade. The students at Brookland were required to take Accelerated Reader (AR) tests over the books we read. We had to reach an AR goal each nine weeks of school. Which meant we had to read books, take tests over them, and pass them in order to get the points. If you met your AR goal, you were able to go on a fun field trip at the end of the nine weeks. The trips were always to the movies or the water park, so I worked very hard to reach my AR

Learners can have reading partners who can offer them confidence to improve on their reading skills. By doing so, an instructor offers the learners the chance to nurture their skills in comprehension, vocabulary, fluency. All these skills are vital for a learner to acquire the proper educational abilities that can have a lasting impact on the learner’s ability. The instructor can help a learner to succeed in a reading program by offering the learner a chance to decode the meaning of the words read easily through practice.

Throughout time education has been considered a process that every so often must be improved. The education quality in the U.S. has declined over the years and people have been looking for a way to make improvements. A more recent proposal has been to go from a traditional nine-month schedule to an all year program. Supporters of year round school claim it gives the student a better education. However, the prospect of year round school is not beneficial to the taxpayers pocket, to the education a student receives, or to the people involved with the district.

For as long as most can remember, schooling has been based on a ten-month calendar. Although it was established for an agricultural society it is still extremely common in today’s urban society. The introduction of year-round education, though it clearly makes more sense for todays students, is still a relatively new concept and therefore is subject to a lot of speculation. With benefits such as, remediation, better chances for high-risk and ESL students, economic benefits, and more structure/stability it is a mystery why some oppose the idea of implementing it on a wider scale.

Through the years of elementary school, I excelled in reading because of the comprehension I had and my love for books. We were always required to read a book, because we needed a certain amount of accelerated reading points each month. My favorite books were Junie B. Jones and Captain Underpants. I enjoyed reading during these years because it came natural to me and I admired the fictional aspects of books and the way they could make my mind run wild. The teachers I had I credit some of my success to because they helped me succeed in reading during elementary school.