I am from Westerville, Ohio, but I grew up in Columbus. I graduated from Otterbein University where I received my bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education with a 4-5th grade generalist endorsement. I am currently working on my master’s degree to receive a Reading Endorsement. During the summer, I work with a group called Youth to Youth International as an adult staff member. In addition, I have two dogs.…
A weakness that I have is that I do not know how to say no to individuals that ask me for help since I love to help people. It is important that I learn to say no when helping others gets in the way of me accomplishing my tasks. It is important that I do both, but not when I run the risk of not meeting my deadlines and me staying late hours after work to get my work done. It has not been an easy task saying no, but I am learning to be okay with saying no because it is important that it does not interfere with my responsibilities.…
I think my reading has improved because I use better vocabulary and I can understand what I am reading. The reading strategies have helped me to become a better reader. I still rely on DJE, T2T like I did when I took basic reading as well. They are very helpful strategies that help me to read better and think about what I am reading. For this and other classes my goals are to understand what I am reading and being able to sum up what I read with very little difficulty.…
Now I could lie and make up stuff that made me like reading and writing but I see no point in that. Honestly I don’t have a lot of memories of reading and writing from when I was a little kid and I can tell you now that football hasn’t helped me at remembering those memories either. With that being said I do remember some memories, some are good and also bad.…
Even if it's short stories, or just articles on the internet, it is something good for the brain, and would help tremendously, and help you grow as a reader. I sit down and start to think about what it would be like if we did not have the ability to read. It also makes me think about how important reading is to us. If we did not have the ability to read things would be so much different. Our daily lives would be difficult.…
Literature books like ‘The great Gatsby’ among others are my most favorite’s books I read. I normally read them mostly during my leisure time. It refresh my mind after a very busy day. Reading is an active process which involve previewing, reading and responding.…
The Dreaded Reading Class It was the first day of third grade. I jumped out of my moms car after kissing her on the cheek and hearing the routine “have a good day”. Jordy, my sister, and I walked in together reminiscing the previous years at Rising Star. Everyone was dressed in their favorite outfit to impress all their friends. Jordy and I fashioned our Limited Too dresses and sparkly back packs.…
My strengths in school are math and science. I have always been able to take advanced classes in these subjects and maintain a good G.P.A I also have a great love for these subjects. After doing research I came to a conclusion that a chemical engineer would be a great for me. Chemical engineers use a great deal of math and science everyday. Chemical engineers develop and design chemical manufacturing processes.…
I am most proud of my reading responses for each of the module because I have learned so much by reading those chapters. Not only it helped me improve my reading skills, it also improved my writing and thinking skills. I was able to apply what I have learned in the chapters to the reading responses. I have always struggled to put my thoughts on paper in a way that is coherent and correct according to the assignments. For example, the reading responds in chapter one for the Coca-Cola bumper sticker, I took a different approach which made the respond off topic.…
The city of Reading has a population of 87,893 people, and is the fifth largest city in the state of Pennsylvania. Over forty percent of the population in Reading lives below the poverty line. Growing up in Reading, I have seen a lot of things a child in a rural or suburban setting might not, things most kids do not need to see while growing up. Students as young as seventh grade are more worried about joining a gang than they are getting good grades. Girls at the age of fourteen walk around school with a child growing inside of them.…
I like reading because I am often learning while doing so; not just in the conventional sense of reading out of a textbook, but while reading novels I am learning about writing itself. I am not confident in my writing, and this is part of the reason I like to read. As a reader, I can stand passively by in a sort of safe zone where I feel more free to learn. Reading others work is one thing, but writing your own is completely another. Reading is understanding writing, and understanding the meaning that the author is trying to convey.…
There are many difficulties and struggles that a First Generation American student like myself experience on the daily. My main struggle is the language barrier with English reading and writing. Growing up with foreign parents was not the easiest thing, but ended up being worthwhile at the end. My first and native language is Polish. I had not learned the English language till I started preschool and that is where I learned it from.…
Reading to me is comparable to time travel. Anyone can learn from people who were living in different parts of the world, at times when they weren’t even alive. To me this presents incredible opportunities and I have recently started to take advantage of it. Instead of wasting my time on television, I spend on average two or three hours each day reading something. I enjoy reading about history and biographies.…
My earliest memory of reading may be like anyone else’s. Your mom comes in your room right before you fall asleep and reads you a bedtime story. As a child I enjoyed reading and allowed my mind to drift to a place of imagination. But when I reached the age of eleven my imagination and enjoyment of reading had drifted away. It wasn’t until my first day of 6th grade that I met a teacher who would show me what it truly means to enjoy reading and would change the way I lived my life.…
I have developed strong writing skills throughout the semester; any pieces of writing I have written have improved every time. Looking back at my essay and revising them to be placed in my portfolio, I saw where my weaknesses were and where my strengths were. Just by reading my past essays, I noticed how I have grown as a writer. While plagiarism percentage wasn’t an issue and transitional words were my specialty, using broader vocabulary, staying on one point of view, focusing on my main idea, creating complex sentences, assembling my thoughts onto paper, and using literary techniques to grasp my audience’s attention were my weaknesses. And while I have enriched my writing skills over this term, there is still more room for improvement and…