In this paper, I am going to talk about how reading effected my life negatively and positively. Reading is a good thing, it helps your literacy skills, grammar skills, and helps your comprehending skills. Most people don’t know that there is a side to reading that is not always good. When a person becomes enthralled in a book and can’t put it down they start to let that effect their everyday life. I have read many book series from Harry Potter books to the Percy Jackson ones. I once considered myself an outstanding reader and was told this many times by my sixth-grade teacher. I have stopped reading books for fun as I got older. When you get older it doesn’t seem like it matters, what matters are typical teenager things like sports and social media. Should I have stopped reading?
The first big impacting literacy experience was in first grade where we got to have our special friend come in to the class. You got to pick anyone you …show more content…
I have read many series of books, more than I can count but it never seems enough I was addicted. Reading turn my life to a 180 and I went to being very social person to being a loner and always reading a book. This is how reading negatively affected my life. When I got into seventh grade or high school (middle school for big schools ours is K-12) I started to get picked on for always reading and I could feel myself drifting from my classmates.
At some point my eighth-grade year I did another 180 bringing me back to where I was before reading. I went from a more quiet reader to a loud noisy class clown. I haven’t read a book for fun since eighth or ninth grade and the only time I read books is when they are assigned in class. My reading skill is still at a high level, my last test on lexile range 1340. Reading really effected my life and first grade is where it all start. There is a valuable lesson here to learn, teach them when they’re young and they will be doing it in years to
The first big impacting literacy experience was in first grade where we got to have our special friend come in to the class. You got to pick anyone you …show more content…
I have read many series of books, more than I can count but it never seems enough I was addicted. Reading turn my life to a 180 and I went to being very social person to being a loner and always reading a book. This is how reading negatively affected my life. When I got into seventh grade or high school (middle school for big schools ours is K-12) I started to get picked on for always reading and I could feel myself drifting from my classmates.
At some point my eighth-grade year I did another 180 bringing me back to where I was before reading. I went from a more quiet reader to a loud noisy class clown. I haven’t read a book for fun since eighth or ninth grade and the only time I read books is when they are assigned in class. My reading skill is still at a high level, my last test on lexile range 1340. Reading really effected my life and first grade is where it all start. There is a valuable lesson here to learn, teach them when they’re young and they will be doing it in years to