Personal Narrative: My Literacy Predators

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“Everyone is a reader… Some just haven’t found their favorite book yet.” I remember how I used to like playing with my electric car or bike and especially caring about collecting the hot wheels cars collection. Like any child at this age, all he cares about is jumping around on sofas, running through doors and breaking stuff and walking on it. But here comes the dream breakers who are our literacy sponsors. They want what’s best for us which are the best education that could start by reading; I liked reading fiction and non-fiction books. If it wasn’t for my family’s help and my teachers at school, I would have not loved school or reading.
From Cairo, Egypt where my first language was Arabic, my story began. Of course Arabic as my first language
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While I was running around and jumping on the sofa, I was not following my mother’s words to sit on my seat and continue eating my lunch. This scenario was typically the same when my mum was encouraging me to read. When I was 7 years old, my mum and my grandfather started buying small English books with different reading levels for me and my sister to read so we become better at reading English and also at school. In my life my literacy sponsors were my teachers at school, my mother and my grandfather. My mum sometimes reads newspapers when it was the time when the revolution was going on, but now she doesn’t read newspaper. My grandfather too reads the newspaper daily and when I go down to him he tells me to read a part of the newspaper for him but I always hated newspapers but loved the newspaper about auto news that used to come only on Fridays.
I personally like to read fiction books especially the ones with pop-ups. Also I myself like to read nonfiction books about animals, cars and the dangerous fishes under the sea and myths about them. I like to read Top-Gear books, National Geographic and also Guinness World Records book of every year. Also I like to read either about myths or scary mysterious stuff that would make you shiver or discoveries about blood suckers or monsters that were myths in the past as for example The

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