Reflective Essay: How Reading Has Been Apart Of My Life

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Reading has always been apart of my life. I haven’t always loved it but it’s something my mom has always pushed me to do. I remember when I was in elementary school and I struggled to read books. I always got my R’s and W’s messed up when I would read. I always enjoyed the Junie B. Jones an the Amelia Bedelia books. They both made me laugh a lot and where just a really good read. When I got into the third grade I began reading the Magic Tree House books, In which I fell in love with the mysterious books with a meaning behind them. Also in the third grade we began reading the series, Little House on A Prairie. Everyday after lunch the teacher would pick someone to sit infant of the whole class and read a chapter out of the book. I was always so excited to read to the class! The series was also a great read. Once I got into the fourth grade I wanted to expand my vocabulary and comprehension in books and I started to read the …show more content…
All we did was read literature out of a book and answer questions about the stories. I stopped reading until one day we read The Lottery in class which is a fictional book that tells how the lottery was played back in 1948. This book was insane but I loved it. I then drew toward books that had a dark meaning to them. Some of these books consisted of The Kill Artist, The Eight, and some of the good time Goosebumps! In seventh grade I was introduced to one of my all time favorite book/series, The Hunger Games. I had fondness in the way the author told the story and how it was set in the future. Also we read a book called Schooled that was about hippies and how the main charted makes and impact on the public school. Then in the eight grade we read the Hobbit which was a really good read and also did some poetry with the must we listen too, which in all honesty I enjoyed. After the Hobbit I backed up from reading for the rest of the year cause I didn’t know what to read

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