Do you like to strive to help others learn and grow as a person? When you’re teaching someone to read you need to have patience and the desire to help them get better. I had to help teach my little brother how to read because I was around him the most while my parents were working. We would stay at my grandparents house while my parents worked. My brother and I always would end up getting mad at each other and would stop reading for the day and worked more the next day.
There wasn’t one certain step of the whole learning process that was harder than another, it was all very challenging. My brother had trouble speaking when he was little so it made it more challenging for all of us because we were also teaching him how to speak properly. Most of the time we would work on reading we would sit outside at our picnic table on the lawn. If it was way too hot outside, raining, or too windy we would stay inside. My little brother used to hate reading and would throw hissy fits every time we told him it was time …show more content…
He still has some trouble with grammar, and how to say some things grammatically correct, but he is one of the smartest in his class. There is still times when he needs help with some homework and will come and say “Lith, I don’t completely understand, can you come help and explain what this means?” Now that he doesn’t have a speech problem anymore he reads fluently and doesn’t get so frustrated. I’m honestly very surprised at how much patience I used to have when me and my brother were younger because I would be able to sit there with him for a long time before he got on my nerves. Now when he asks me for help I help him, but if he argues with me maybe once maybe even twice then I stop helping him and tell him to go find someone else to help him because he obviously doesn’t think I know what I’m