Literacy Narrative Essay

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Literacy Narrative
I view myself as an average writer and reader for my age. The guidance and support from others is what I believe supports my literacy the most. This consists of my parents pushing me to do my best by encouraging me to read and write better by their support and guidance through assignments and doing other forms of literacy for entertainment. I never always viewed myself as an average writer and reader for my age, I actually thought my literacy was quiet mediocre.
It has been just recently that I feel I have become an average write and reader. As a child it was very hard for me to distinguish letters apart. This hardship set me back from most others my age which may have always made me feel as a student with below average literacy. I never told anyone about this and the way I over came it was by the help of my mother as Id study for spelling tests and by her helping me read my first books in elementary. I over came this hardship by writing down the things that
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Motivational thoughts will also help me as continuing to build my literacy as before I would look down on my literacy because of the negative feedback I would get for not having a good five paragraph essay. Being able to steadily improve myself using these two things I feel I will be able get myself where I want to be with my literacy.
It seems that as the years past I kept telling myself I was a bad writer and reader that I eventually believed myself. As I was completing these essays and reading these books I realized I wasn’t at a lower level or a bad at it just gradually improved as time passed. I improved through the countless times between when I was in elementary to the present day as my mom helped me with grammar and structure in my school assignments and helping me read books as I got older that I never

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