Kindergarten: Accelerated Reading

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Children’s stories make up for the complexity of chapter books being read today. Whether we read or write, everything comes together through the imagination and integrity of our desires among the genres we have access to. In Kindergarten, reading as well as writing stood the main goal for me. As soon as the teacher announced about a story-teller arriving to our school library, Ecstasy began filling in the pit of my stomach. I absolutely loved when someone came to read to our class. I became remarkably engaged with how the story teller explained a situation through emotion plus gestures of body language. The story-teller used tones that would imitate the characters’ voices as if they obtained life in the real world. She could form a deep tone …show more content…
Our class had been assigned to particular books to read and take a quiz through a program called ‘Accelerated Reading’. We must read various books of diverse genres and levels of difficulty to gain points we attained among each quiz we took. This technique provided me an upper hand to read more frequently. At the end of the school day, my sister picked me and my brother up in her purple Explorer. On the way home, as we drove along the roads, I kept my eyes glued to this book I became intrigued by. The book happened to be called “Frindle”. The description specified from the story explained that a boy desired the word he had created ‘frindle’ to be the name for a pen. Moreover, curiosity lured me to continue analyzing further to see if this made up word would become official in the dictionary. Turns out the word became recognized, according to the story’s ending. I have no idea why, but I became relatively pleased that the boy established his wishes of a pen getting its new name surfaced in a …show more content…
Literature transformed how I regarded stories. I began discovering more complex connotations to words used in context during the rest of the school year. After distinguishing something not of the usual vocabulary I grew accustomed to, it granted me with many opportunities about how I may possibly improve my dialect. I essentially used some of the vocabulary words in my character biographies I produced to describe their personalities. The significance of the literature stories shaped a broad range of my aptitude to create stories of my own with the guidance of my knowledge from literature class. I never posted my stories to the public, I kept them mostly to myself as I obligated no plans to release them, plus they remained written on paper and partake no importance to my writing abilities as those stories became outdated from my latest improvement of grammar. Every day I still find something new in the world of

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