My Literacy Essay: My Love For Reading

Superior Essays
My Literacy History My love for reading came to me at a very early age. When I was little my parents said I loved reading and was an avid reader throughout my childhood. I’m grateful that my parents got me involved in reading when I was younger because it 's really helped me to this day. My vocabulary and my ability to pronounce words is at a higher level than most people. I grew up reading the little chapter books with about 100 pages in them. I usually read the same ones over and over again, mostly because I didn 't have any other books that I liked. My elementary school also pushed me to get involved with reading. There were many programs that held prizes for the kids that read the most books. Of course I wished to win so I tried to read …show more content…
High school is just a long stretch of schooling that most kids don 't care about. I 've thought pretty strongly about where I needed to be when I grow up, and that I need to pay attention in high school. It 's very tough to stay on track because there 's so much going on in life, and frequently I forget the difference between having fun and improving my future. A Lot of knowledge is pushed on students, teachers and parents expect kids to be organized with everything. Especially this year, junior year has just started and it 's already been tougher than my freshman and sophomore year combined. Which I can be organized and get my work done, although occasionally it gets a little crazy the amount of work that 's pushed on us between big tests and everyday homework. The school is trying to encourage extra curricular activities, yet then complain when we don 't do our homework because sports practices go till 6:30 at night. That 's not including all the other chores and other things planned for that day. By the time I would get around to homework it 's already 11 o’clock and the next thing I know it 's 12 am. I wake up not getting enough sleep and the routine just gets repeated everyday. I know we are starting to become adults and that we need to take responsibility, but after awhile I just get wore out. It makes me think about quitting and just not trying. It 's required no matter what because I need it and that 's life. Life is full of hardships and exhaustion, and that 's how it will always be. There is time to have fun and just relax, but like I 've always said nothing is easy. Something may seem easy, but there 's always a

Related Documents

  • Decent Essays

    The Accelerated Reader

    • 325 Words
    • 2 Pages

    I have been reading ever since I could remember. I was read to when I was little as well. I do not recall learning to read, only that when my mother sat me down to start learning how to read, I already knew how. All throughout elementary school, I participated in the Accelerated Reader (also called AR) program. I loved it because you would read books, and then takes quizzes on those books.…

    • 325 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    And this happened to be the start for me. As a young little girl growing up, literacy was my favorite. It was always a passion of mine because I always carried a bag full of various writing tools, notebooks, diaries and books. Because of these two skills>> I possess, both have been an essential part of what makes me the person I am today and plays an important role in my childhood and adulthood because they are the most helpful tools. Despite the long nights of continuous hard work and practices, I have no regrets in whatsoever of having literacy as part of my life.…

    • 1190 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Literacy Narrative Rough Draft Growing up, reading was always one of my favorite things to do. I would read “Harry Potter” and “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” books over and over again until I finally grew tired of them. But how did this passion for reading begin? My mom says she started reading to me before I was even born.…

    • 282 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Becoming Literate Essay

    • 814 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Once upon a time, if you were able to denote your signature with an X you were considered literate (Reay, 1991). Today however the meaning of literate is far more complex. Whilst defined in its most simplistic form as being ‘able to read and write’ the term literate is also applied to being ‘educated or knowledgeable’ (Stevenson & Vaite, 2011. p831) in a specific area such as quantitatively or technologically literate.…

    • 814 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    My Literacy Autobiography

    • 984 Words
    • 4 Pages

    As I mastered the concept of reading by myself, the words began to delight me. I really fell in love with reading in the second grade. I started to collect…

    • 984 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    My literacy narrative I turned in last week was not a complicated paper, but I had a few troubles along the way. I had just one main problem and it was the introduction. My comma mistakes and trying to include enough support in my conclusion was not a breeze to do either. Overall, the essay was not hard to write about it was just a few little mistakes that I had along the way that made it complicated.…

    • 679 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    How I Learned To Read

    • 438 Words
    • 2 Pages

    and I somehow found myself wanting to read every chance I got. Learning how to read was important to me. I was happy that I knew how to say words, read them, and know exactly what they meant instead of just looking at pictures. When I got home from school, I could not wait to get home to tell my mother the new…

    • 438 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    My Literacy: A Short Story

    • 1087 Words
    • 5 Pages

    To tell the story of my life and how literacy has a personal connection with me, wed have to start when i first started reading and writing. When i began learning to read and write i loved it, i loved being able to read different things and finally understanding what different things meant. The majority of my time spent in elementary school was reading books or reading magazines, I enjoyed reading so much. Growing up i was always told by everyone “You're going to be so smart, people who read a lot tend to be really smart.”. This mostly came from my grandma who always pushed me to be the person i've always wanted to be.…

    • 1087 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    My literacy journey has been one that I am grateful for thus far. Throughout the years, my family and my teachers have been at the core of my literacy. The various teachers and professors who have taught me have really played a big role in ensuring that I have become as literate as they could possibly prepare me. My parents and siblings have always been a big part of this journey, especially in reading. They have supported me by encouraging me to read as many books as possible.…

    • 1244 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Growing up with reading and writing has always been a struggle for me. I would was get extra help on my reading and more time to practice than the other kids. I was not only a slow reader, but I also tended to skip over some of the words. I would never finish the text on the timed reading quizzes. I have had teachers, family, and friends striving and encouraging me not to give up on myself.…

    • 875 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Non Reading Autobiography

    • 465 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Ironically, though I wasn’t immediately taken with reading, I became an avid reader after those first few difficult years. I was a regular at my elementary school’s small library, and I competed in everything book-related that I could. Battle of the books, spelling bees, and English classes were my favorite pastimes in grade school. Other children dreaded completing summer reading and literature studies, but I looked at reading…

    • 465 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    When I Learned to Read and Write. I first started reading and writing in preschool, my teacher was very helpful and did everything she could do to help me achieve goals, and become who I am today. When I was younger I would pretend that I could read and I would read to all of my toys. In preschool, my teacher saw me trying to read so she came over to me and started to help me sound out the words and form the sentences so that I could read. The first book I read was Dr.Seuss’ “Green, Eggs and Ham.”…

    • 1410 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    My Literacy Journey

    • 1113 Words
    • 5 Pages

    In each individual's life, there comes an moment, an individual, or an incident that will will have an immense impact on their life. Whether it's for the better or worse, their life will be changed for the rest of their life. For a few, this pivotal point may be the start of a new job, the death of a family member, learning a new hobby, or even meeting the love of their life. For me, my literacy journey when I overcame a great obstacle in my life when I had to adjust to the educational system in the U.S. At the time when I was just a child, my mother took me back to her home country, Colombia, due to her mother being terribly ill.…

    • 1113 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    My Journey With Literacy

    • 2052 Words
    • 9 Pages

    My journey with literacy has been a part of my life and began before I even entered school. During my early days you would say I was a “repeater”. I repeated things that I would hear from my parents and people that were around me all the time. Some of them were good to say and some not so good to say. My parents always sat down and read to me.…

    • 2052 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    When I was young I was never the best at reading even though my parents owned many books and magazines that they read on a daily basis. My mother enjoyed reading her gossip magazines that she would receive in the mail once a month and my father had a whole bookshelf full of history books. My parents would always encourage me to read the books I would check out at the school library to improve my reading and writing but that advice usually went in through one ear and out the other. The only books I would really attempt to read had to be humorous or horrifying, my favorites were the Goosebumps collection. I loved reading these books alone in my room where I couldn’t be sidetracked by all the commotion that went on in my house.…

    • 789 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays

Related Topics