Personal Narrative: Shurley English Language

I remember sitting in my first grade classroom with Mrs. Mashburn, she held our attention by standing at the front of the classroom singing this jingle: “This little pronoun, floating around. Takes the place of a little old noun. With a knick knack paddy wack. These are English rules. Isn’t language fun and cool?” To this day I will never forget Shurley English jingles. Even though I can remember the catching little jingles I learned from first grade through seventh grade, I still don’t view my writing skills to be good. After receiving my Path Builder Summery I found my skills to be weaker than I expected. Shurley English was taught throughout my elementary and middle school. Each grade level the grammar and composition skills became more complex, however the same jingles and poems continued through the years. Shurley English taught the parts of speech, proper usage, capitalization, and punctuation. Student …show more content…
I find Spelling to be my worst subject and truly feel I will never enjoy spelling. I remember sitting in my classroom hearing the words, causing me to recite the word over and over in my head. I would attempt to sound out the words slowly, jotting down the syllables, and I recited it again. To this day I cannot spell words correctly, all I can say it “Thank you for spell check.” Three years of struggling with spelling and reading resulted in my teacher recommending some education testing be completed. At that time, I was diagnostic with a processing disorder, for this reason placing me on an IEP (Individual Education Plan). Years of struggling with spelling and fighting with my mom over the words, I found some skills that helped me do better on the tests. To begin with I would copy the words over and over in my own penmanship. Secondly, I repeated each word slowly as I wrote them down on paper. Finally, I would create flashcards and use them through the